Kehoe v. Minnesota Department of Economic Security

OPINION

WILLIS, Judge.

Relator Tom J. Kehoe challenges the commissioner’s representative’s decision that he voluntarily quit his job with the Minnesota Department of Economic Security (MDES) without good cause attributable to the MDES.

FACTS

Kehoe worked for the MDES from 1975 until October 1996, when he resigned. He accepted MDES’s offer of a $10,500 incentive payment to participate in an early retirement plan and then filed for reemployment insurance benefits. An MDES claims representative concluded that Kehoe was disqualified from receiving reemployment insurance benefits because he…