Brumley v. Iowa Department of Job Service

MeGIVERIN, Justice.

The dispositive question in this appeal is whether under its rules respondent Iowa Department of Job Service was required to give claimant warning or notice to expand her search for work beyond her customary occupation of schoolteaching before her unemployment compensation benefits could be terminated. Job Service cut off the benefits of petitioner Joell L. Brumley on the ground she was not “available for work,” under section 96.4(3), The Code 1977, and Job Service administrative rules, because she had failed to search for employment other than as a teacher. The district…