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Employee’s smack won’t cost her unemployment benefits

A split appellate court panel on Tuesday said a woman who was fired for smacking a co-worker can still get unemployment compensation. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District parsed the unemployment statute’s recently tightened definition of “misconduct” and found that Robin Stahl’s backhanded strike to a male colleague’s rear end after he made a vulgar ...

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