I work in legal aid and occasionally we will help people who have been denied unemployment insurance benefits (UIB). Our client had been working at a hospital for a couple of years and was fired for missing too many days. Ok, fair enough. However for the days that she missed, she provided a dr's note (every time). The last time she missed work was because she was admitted to a hospital, the one she works at, for an infection and covid. She let her boss know that she was in the hospital and provided a note from the hospital, that she both worked at and was admitted to. to her boss. When she returned to work she was fired for absences and denied unemployment for “misconduct”. I told her to request a hearing. We did ten minutes of research to find (what we already knew) that, missing work because you went to the hospital and provided a dr's note is generally NOT misconduct and cannot serve as the basis to deny a UIB claim. The judge at the hearing was obviously annoyed with the hospital and guess what, found for our client. Now she will get her UIB payments. Apparently this hospital would rather have employees who are sick show up to work and risk getting patients sick as opposed to their unemployment insurance rates going up a nickle. The entire thing was pretty offensive honestly.