An employee that has had a number of warnings but continues to be tardy in reporting to work and is ultimately fired is properly disqualified from receiving Kentucky unemployment insurance benefits the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled recently in Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission v. Cecil, No. 2010-SC-00349 (October 25, 2012).
The Court also ruled that it was not necessary to prove that the employee's misconduct was "wanton and willful" to be disqualified from benefits.
Justice Wil Schroder wrote the opinion for a unanimous Court.
