Key State Bank v. Adams

In this case, we are called upon to decide whether a claimant is entitled to unemployment compensation benefits where: she began work knowing that her employment required Saturday work; she worked on Saturdays for a period after becoming employed, but later refused such work once she had changed her religious beliefs to a creed which did not permit Saturday work; the employer imposed no new conditions upon her; and the employer, a small bank with few employees, attempted in good faith (but without success) to accommodate her newly held religious beliefs. Under these circumstances, I would…