An Illinois appellate court panel held Thursday that a Chicago employee couldn’t get unemployment benefits after he was fired for posting on his union’s Facebook that he would “take you all with me” if his coworkers gave him COVID-19, ruling his threatening post qualified as a termination for misconduct.
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