Jordon v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

I respectfully dissent. Unlike the majority, I believe that the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (UCBR) failed to properly consider its own finding that Claimant’s lifelong “organic mood disorder,” which manifests itself in periods of depression, prevented Claimant from getting out of bed on the days in question. (UCBR’s Findings of Fact, Nos. 2, 11.) I believe that, properly considered, this finding leads to the inevitable conclusion that Claimant’s mental illness constitutes “good cause” for his conduct and, thus, I would reverse the UCBR’s order and grant benefits to Claimant.

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