Irvine v. St. John's Lutheran Church of Mound

OPINION

COLLINS, Judge. *

Relator Sara Irvine challenges the decision of the unemployment law judge (ULJ) that she could not establish an unemployment-benefit account because her employment with respondent St. John’s Lutheran Church of Mound (St. John’s Church) was noncovered employment. Irvine argues that the operative statute does not require covered employment as a condition of eligibility and contends that she should receive benefits because she was unemployed through no fault of her own. Because Irvine’s employment with St. John’s Church was noncovered employment and because the church did…