Adams v. Ward

PRESIDING JUSTICE LaPORTA

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Charles E. Adams was fired from his job and then refused unemployment insurance benefits on the ground that he was discharged for misconduct, as defined by the Unemployment Insurance Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 48, par. 300 et seq.). The circuit court reversed that decision, finding the employer had no articulated “reasonable rule” governing plaintiff’s conduct, plaintiff did not act with “willfulness” or “deliberateness” and the employer had suffered no harm, as required by the newly modified Act. Defendant, the…