Ausley v. CCL Label (St. Louis), Inc.

OPINION

James M. Dowd, Presiding Judge

This unemployment benefits case presents the question of when under the recently-amended Missouri Employment Security Law do work absences on the part of a terminated employee satisfy the defi-*392ration of “misconduct” so as to disqualify the employee from receiving unemployment benefits.

CCL Label (St. Louis), Inc. (“CCL”), appeals from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission’s grant of unemployment benefits to Pamela Ausley, a former employee CCL terminated because of work absences. CCL claims that Ausley’s work absences constitute misconduct connected…