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Drink and Drive. Get Fired. Collect Unemployment Benefits? Yep, Says Court.

By Daniel Schwartz on July 23, 2013
Posted in Litigation, Wage & Hour

One day, your human resources manager comes to you.  She tells you that an employee lost his commercial driver’s license because he was caught — off the job — driving drunk.

The driver’s license is a requirement for the employee’s job.  Can you fire the employee? Under virtually all circumstances, sure.

But then the employee…

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