{"id":1581,"date":"2013-11-12T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2013-11-12T16:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:40:45","slug":"youre-fired-for-forging-that-doctors-note-or-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Fired For Forging that Doctor&#8217;s Note\u2026 Or Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/doctor.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1582\" alt=\"doctor\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/doctor.gif\" width=\"154\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Missouri Court of Appeals has recently said that willfully falsifying documents with intent to deceive an employer can constitute misconduct. However, whether that misconduct qualifies for termination is another issue. The Missouri Court stated that if the forgery is not regarding an important issue, then the misconduct is not enough to get fired for. In this case, an employee should not have been fired when he forged a doctor&#8217;s note to operate heavy machinery.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, check out this case:<br \/>\nCheikh Seck vs. Division of Employment Security<br \/>\nMissouri Court of Appeals, Western District- WD75148<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Hoorfarlaw.com\">www.Hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri Court of Appeals has recently said that willfully falsifying documents with intent to deceive an employer can constitute misconduct. However, whether that misconduct qualifies for termination is another issue. The Missouri Court stated that if the forgery is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[372,229,348,366,371],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-falsifying-documents","tag-hoorfar-law","tag-law-office-of-camron-hoorfar","tag-missouri-court-of-appeals","tag-western-district-of-missouri"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}