Fired Worker Allowed Aid; Threw Meat at Supervisor
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DES MOINES — The Iowa Court of Appeals awarded jobless benefits Wednesday to a packing plant worker fired for throwing a piece of meat at a supervisor who had denied him a restroom break. It said that denying the break caused the incident and throwing the meat “was an unthinking, spontaneous expression of frustration.”
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