Arizona Administrative Code|Section R6-3-51385 - Relation of Offense to Discharge (misconduct 385)

                                                
 § R6-3-51385. Relation of Offense to Discharge (misconduct 385) 
 
A. Before a disqualification for a discharge for misconduct may be applied, the worker must have committed an act(s) of misconduct connected with his work and he must have been discharged for such act(s).
 
B. Generally, only the employer can state authoritatively the reasons for the worker's dismissal. If the discharge does not follow the commission of misconduct in a prompt and reasonable sequence of events, the burden falls on the employer to establish the causal relationship. When an unreasonable length of time has elapsed between the commission of the act and the discharge, the employer has in effect condoned the act, and the subsequent discharge is not for work-connected misconduct.
 (Former Rule number Misconduct 385. Former Rule repealed, new Section R6-3-51385 adopted effective January 24, 1977 (Supp. 77-1). Amended effective April 6, 1979 (Supp. 79-2).)