Tacher v. Unemployment Appeals Commission

STEVENSON, Judge.

Tacher, a former manager at a Luria’s Department Store, challenges an order of the Unemployment Appeals Commission affirming the appeals referee’s decision to disqualify him from receipt of unemployment benefits on the basis of “misconduct” after he was fired for failing, on two consecutive days, to conduct the “daily inspection” of the store’s inventory of diamonds, as required by the terms of his employment. Two days after Tacher failed to inspect the diamonds, the employer discovered a diamond solitaire had been stolen and replaced with a cubic zirco-nia. We reverse.

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