Holiday Inn v. Karch

MESCHKE, Justice.

Holiday Inn of Fargo appeals from an order by Job Service North Dakota awarding unemployment benefits to Irene Karch. We affirm.

Holiday Inn employed Karch for 20 years, the last four years as a restaurant hostess. Six to eight weeks before Christmas, Karch told her supervisor she wanted Christmas Day off. The supervisor did not grant or deny this request, but simply “dropped it” until December 23. When asked on December 23 if she would be working Christmas Day, Karch reminded the supervisor that she “would not be working,” but was told management had refused her request.…