Governor Matt Mead vetoed the Unemployment Insurance-Worker's Misconduct bill Thursday. Dan Neal with the Equality State Policy Center says the bill was originated in order to deny workers unemployment benefits if they were fired for willful misconduct but Neal says the bill ended up being a bill that meant workers could be fired and denied benefits for just about anything...
The Equality State Policy Center and Wyoming State AFL-CIO are raising concerns about a bill awaiting action by Governor Matt Mead that deals with workers misconduct and eligibility for unemployment benefits. Dan Neal,Executive Director of the EQPC, says the bill originally started out dealing with denying unemployment benefits to workers fired for willful misconduct, but ended up being changed