Jones v. Director, Department of Workforce Services

BRANDON J. HARRISON, Judge.

| Margaret Jones appeals the Arkansas Board of Review’s decision to deny her unemployment benefits. The issue is whether Jones was discharged from Packers Sanitation for misconduct; if she committed misconduct, then she gets no benefits. But she did not engage in misconduct when she missed four days of work due to an undisputed illness that the employer knew about from the get go. So we reverse the Board’s denial and remand for an award of benefits.

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Margaret Jones worked at Packers Sanitation from May 2011 until she was fired in October 2013. The circumstances of…