Associated Wholesale Grocers v. Moncrief

PARRISH, Presiding Judge.

Associated Wholesale Grocers (employer) appeals the award of unemployment compensation benefits to Samuel Moncrief (claimant). The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (the commission) concluded that an item offered in evidence as a business record exception to hearsay was not admissible; that because it provided the only evidence supporting employer’s claim that claimant violated its substance abuse policy, the evidence failed to show claimant was discharged for misconduct, and claimant was thereby entitled to unemployment benefits. This court reverses the…