Unemployment

An appeals court in Arkansas ruled that a college fitness director who was furloughed during the summer was improperly denied unemployment benefits, finding that his position was year-round and the “interruption of his regular, year-round employment was not due to some natural break in the academic cycle” but because of the pandemic.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An appeals court in Arkansas ruled that a college fitness director who was furloughed during the summer was improperly denied unemployment benefits, finding that his position was year-round and the “interruption of his regular, year-round employment was not due to some natural break in the academic cycle” but because of the pandemic.

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