Ideker v. LaCrescent Nursing Center, Inc.

Writ of certiorari upon the relation of the employer to review a decision of the commissioner of manpower services. The issue is whether claimant should be partially disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation benefits on the ground that she was discharged for “misconduct” within the meaning of Minn. St. 268.09, subd. 1(1). The commissioner, affirming the appeal tribunal, held that claimant was not subject to any disqualification from receiving benefits. We reverse.

Claimant was employed as a nurse’s aid in a private nursing home. Knowing that the use of harsh or unkind language in…