Norwood v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security

ISHEE, J„

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 2011, Sharleen Norwood was terminated from her employment at Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (the Center) in Magee, Mississippi, for sleeping while at work. After her request for unemployment benefits was denied, she appealed her termination and the denial of unemployment benefits to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES). After a hearing, MDES upheld her termination and the denial of unemployment benefits. Norwood then appealed MDES’s decision to the Jefferson Davis County Circuit Court. The circuit court affirmed MDES’s decision, and Norwood now…