Court Opinion

ID: 9800088
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 07:54:16.887343+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:40:43.846637
License: Public Domain

FISHER, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I join Judge Reid’s opinion, agreeing that we cannot uphold the ALJ’s finding of gross misconduct because it is based on different reasons than those given by the employer for its decision to terminate Sergeant Lynch. Moreover, Masters Security failed to prove that Sergeant Lynch had violated its rules about the safeguarding of weapons. This is regrettable because Sergeant Lynch created a very dangerous situation by leaving her loaded weapon behind in a restroom accessible to the public. Where there is such a high risk of serious *678injury, ordinary negligence should be sufficient to support a finding of misconduct. If the current statutes and regulations do not permit that conclusion, they should be amended to do so.