Court Opinion

ID: 9669962
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:11:40.795491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:01.368130
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HARRIS, Justice
(dissenting).
Under § 96.6(10) (d), The Code, the district court may modify or reverse the commissioner’s decision if there is not sufficient competent evidence in the record to support it. I believe the record here was not sufficient. It consisted only of a self-serving letter from the employer and various incomprehensible statements of the claimant. At hearing claimant was obviously oblivious of any rights he had under the right-to-work law. Chapter 736A, The Code. It seems to me unfair and contrary to the spirit of both the employment security chapter and the right-to-work law to deny the claimant an opportunity to attempt to show the employer participated in claimant’s dismissal. The employer’s self-serving letter may well be only an erroneous legal conclusion. I would remand the case for a further proceeding at which either party could offer evidence on the question of the employer’s participation in claimant’s dismissal.