{"id":6344,"date":"2022-03-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:45:17","slug":"claimant-made-self-unavailable-for-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"Claimant Made Self Unavailable for Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Statutes provide that the elements of a claim for employment security benefits include availability for work. Negating that element was appellant\u2019s request of her employer not to schedule her for work during the COVID\u00a0pandemic. \u201c[L]imitations on the hours and days the employee is willing to work [divorce claimant] actually and currently from the general labor market.\u201d No statutory policy, nor reasonable fear of COVID, nor reduced wages at other employment, change that result. Appellant\u2019s points are multifarious, but Court of Appeals reviews them nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=181898\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kathleen M. Vaughn, Appellant, v. Missouri CVS Pharmacy, LLC, and Division of Employment Security, Respondents<\/em><\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=181903\" target=\"_blank\">(Overview Summary)<\/a><br>Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District &#8211; ED109383<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you would like to speak with an attorney call us at 816-524-4949 or visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\">website<\/a> to schedule a consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statutes provide that the elements of a claim for employment security benefits include availability for work. Negating that element was appellant\u2019s request of her employer not to schedule her for work during the COVID\u00a0pandemic. \u201c[L]imitations on the hours and days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6344\">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":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}