October 3, 2008

Who Should Receive Unemployment Benefits?

By NICOLAS M. MANICONE

CASE IN POINT

Indiana State University v. LaFief (2008)

Courts are tending to side with faculty members who seek unemployment payments when their contracts are terminated through no fault of their own

A case that the Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled on dealt with the question of whether a professor whose fixed-term contract expires becomes unemployed on a voluntary or involuntary basis.

Indiana State University appointed William LaFief as an assistant professor

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