Baldor Electric Co. v. Arkansas Employment Security Department

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

Baldor Electric Company appeals the award of unemployment benefits to William Releford. Releford was awarded unemployment benefits by the Arkansas Appeal Tribunal, and the award was affirmed and adopted by the Arkansas Board of Review.

Releford worked for Baldor operating a press as part of a winding team from November 1997 until September 1999. He was terminated after pleading no contest to his second charge of domestic battering, a Class D felony, for which he received a three-year suspended sentence.1 Releford was terminated pursuant to Baldor’s “past practice” of…