McDowell v. Employment Department

Claimant seeks judicial review of a final order of the Employment Appeals Board (the board) denying his application for unemployment compensation on the ground that he voluntarily left work to avoid the possibility of being discharged. We review the board’s order to determine whether substantial evidence supports the board’s findings of facts, ORS 183.482(8)(c), and whether there is a rational relationship between those findings and the board’s legal conclusion, Young v. Employment Dept., 170 Or App 752, 755, 13 P3d 1027 (2000). We affirm.

The following facts found by the board are supported…