Woodunique, Inc. v. Director, Department of Workforce Services

Josephine Linker Hart, Judge.

Appellant, Woodunique, Inc., appeals from the Arkansas Board of Review’s award of unemployment benefits to appellee Calvin L. Alley after the Board found that Alley left his last work because of a personal emergency of compelling urgency after making reasonable efforts to preserve his job rights. We reverse and remand the award because substantial evidence does not support the Board’s conclusion that Alley made reasonable efforts to preserve his job rights.

The relevant unemployment-benefit statute provides in part that “an individual shall be disqualified for…