Court Opinion

ID: 4187034
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-07-18 17:08:32.063659+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:33.938528
License: Public Domain

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

PAUL FAULKNER )
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Appellant, )

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V. ) C.A. No. Nl6A-l 1-003-CEB

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PERFORMANCE STAFFING & )
THE UNEMPLOYMENT )
INSURANCE APPEAL BOARD, )
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Appellees. )

Submitted: April 7, 2017
Decided: July 17, 2017
QRM

Petitioner Paul Faulkner has appealed an adverse decision of the
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.

The issue to be decided before the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
Was Whether the Petitioner’s employment Was terminated through no fault of his
own. The facts as developed at the hearing Were that Mr. Faulkner Was Working
for Performance Staffing, a company that arranged jobs - presumably temporary -
for him to go to. Faulkner Wanted construction or landscaping Work. He Was
assigned a job at Edgecraft on the ll p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. This assignment did not

agree With Faulkner’s sleep schedule and he Walked off the job on his first day.

About a Week later, Performance called him to offer essentially the same job but on
the day shift. Faulker demurred, telling Performance he had secured a job at
Johnstone Supply Co. as a delivery driver that Was supposed to be “permanent part
time.”

Unfortunately for Faulkner, the “permanent part time” job at Johnstone
Supply lasted only a few days before he Was replaced because he “took too long in
making a delivery.”

After eschewing the offer of a job at Edgecraft and losing the job at
Johnstone, Faulkner filed for unemployment insurance benefits from Performance.
After the Department of Labor disqualified him from the receipt of unemployment
benefits, the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Referee ruled against him and then
the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board heard his arguments and ruled
against him. He filed this appeal With Superior Court.

In his “brief” before this Court, he offers nothing neW. He agrees that he
voluntarily left his employment With Performance Staffing. He Writes that “I have
tax records to prove that on the day Christian Floyd (With Performance Staffing)
offered me an alternate Work assignment I Was employed and Working for
Johnstone Supply.” Taking Mr. Faulkner at his Word, he voluntarily left his

employment With Performance Staffing (by Way of taking a different job) and Was

therefore properly ruled ineligible for receipt of unemployment insurance benefits
from Performance Staffing.

Mr. Faulkner’s appeal is therefore dismissed as it is clear on the face of the
pleadings that he is not entitled to relief.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Judge Charles E.rl§utler _`\'\