Nickum v. Employment Division

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Employment Appeals Board (Board) affirming the referee’s decision which found claimant to be disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits because she voluntarily left work. ORS 657.176(2).①

Claimant assigns as error:(1) “The Employment Appeals Board erred in finding: ‘Her [petitioner’s] conversation with the employer on September 27 is found to be a leaving of the work.’ ”(2) “The Employment Appeals Board erred in determining the legal issue in this case to be whether the employee had ‘good cause’ to leave work rather than whether the…