{"id":6830,"date":"2022-07-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:53:12","slug":"covid-19-negated-voluntary-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6830","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Negated Voluntary Quitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statutes deny benefits when claimant has voluntarily quit without good cause, meaning that claimant at least \u201cimpliedly rejects the employment and the employer by some action such as failing to provide notification of the absence.\u201d Notification of absence occurred when claimant informed a supervisor of illness with COVID-19, and the record shows no other requirement, only repeated attempts by claimant to return to work. \u201c[T]he overwhelming weight of the evidence in the record is that [c]laimant is unemployed through no fault of his own.\u201d Remanded to award benefits.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=187257\" target=\"_blank\"><em>George Chavis, Appellant, v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., and Division of Employment Security, Respondents.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=187263\" target=\"_blank\">(Overview Summary)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District \u2013 ED110016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Need to speak with an attorney? Call our office at 816-524-4949 or <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/hoorfarlaw\">click here<\/a> to schedule a consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statutes deny benefits when claimant has voluntarily quit without good cause, meaning that claimant at least \u201cimpliedly rejects the employment and the employer by some action such as failing to provide notification of the absence.\u201d Notification of absence occurred when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6830\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","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\/6830","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=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}