Nichols v. Utah State Department of Employment Security

HOWE, Justice:

Plaintiff seeks review of a decision of the Board of Review of the Industrial Commission affirming the administrative law judge’s findings that the claimant, Sharon Anne Nichols, voluntarily left work without good cause and that a denial of unemployment compensation to her under U.C.A., 1953, § 35-4-5(a) would not be against equity and good conscience.

Plaintiff began working for the U.S. Forest Service in December of 1978 as a personnel clerk. In 1981, after experiencing problems with her supervisor, she initiated grievance procedures on the ground that she believed that…