Demar v. Department of Labor

Johnson, J.,

¶ 8. dissenting. The majority’s decision today requires an em*580ployee with good cause to leave her employment to jump through an unreasonable and futile hoop to maintain eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits. In doing so, the majority undercuts the legislative purpose behind our unemployment compensation and wage and hour laws — laws that are meant to protect workers from exploitative and unfair working conditions. Because I cannot agree that an employee’s reasonable refusal to attend what can only be described as a futile meeting bars an otherwise valid claim to…