1. If you were an Unemployment Compensation administrative hearing judge in this case, would you initially be more likely to side with the employee or the hotel?

2. How would you likely answer the following specific questions asked by the administrative hearing judge?
a. Is there a distributed list of “unacceptable” reasons for calling in sick? Who decides what is “unacceptable”?

b. In the past six months have all employees who followed the hotel’s policy of calling in sick four hours before their shift ultimately been documented as “resigned” from their job?
c. Assuming the answer to the above question is no, what was the hotel’s basis for treating Donna differently from:

3. How important would it be to be very familiar with the state’s unemployment compensation laws if you were:
a. The person representing the hotel at the administrative hearing?
b. The hotel’s general manager?

c. Tara?