Franklin Collection Service, Inc. v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. When the Mississippi Department of Employment Security’s Board of Review justifies its factual findings with evidence, those findings shall be conclusive. 1 And when the Board’s factual findings are conclusive, our appellate review focuses solely on questions of law. 2

¶ 2. In this unemployment-benefits case, the Board found Franklin Collection Services, Inc. employee Elizabeth Thomas’s productivity was low, so Franklin was justified in terminating Thomas. But the Board found Thomas’s low productivity did not amount to misconduct. So she was not disqualified from…