Summary of Issue: Religious Belief

Decision 72680 Full Text of Decision 72680

The claimant had been recalled to work but failed to return to work. The Commission determined that the claimant had left his employment without just cause and imposed an indefinite disqualification. The reason given by the claimant for refusing to return to his employment was that it was against his religion to eat beef, cut it or handle it. He acknowledged that he had been working at this employment for two years. He had not asked his employer if there could have been another job available for him because this was a slaughtering plant and this was the nature of the work. The appeal is dismissed by the Umpire.