Jones v. Department of Employment Security, Industrial Commission of Utah

HALL, Chief Justice:

Pursuant to a recorded telephone hearing conducted by a representative of defendant Department of Employment Security, plaintiff was disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits on the basis of violations of the Employment Security Act, U.C.A., 1953, 35-4-5(a) and (e). Plaintiff received notice of defendant’s decision to deny benefits sometime around February 19, 1980. On May 20, 1980, he wrote a letter to defendant’s Appeals Office requesting reconsideration of the penalty imposed. An appeals referee determined that he had no jurisdiction to review plaintiff’s case…