Our colleagues New Jersey’s Appellate Division Finds Part C of the “ABC” Independent Contractor Test
, at Epstein Becker Green, have a post on the Retail Labor and Employment Law blog that will be of interest to many of our readers in the health care industry: “Unemployment
Sleeping on the Job Disqualifies Residential Counselor from Unemployment
Posted in Labor Management Relations

In an unpublished decision issued July 22, 2016, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that an overnight residential counselor for developmentally disabled adults was properly disqualified from unemployment because of “severe misconduct” after having been found sleeping on the job. In affirming the Division of Unemployment’s denial of benefits,…