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Senior Member
What I would like to emphasize is something some of us seem to have a problem with. The unemployment system is NOT the criminal or civil justice system, and is not involved with these systems in any way. It is an agency tribunal and is interested only in unemployment law. You may have been denied unemployment based on misconduct, but whether or not you were approved or denied will have nothing at all to do with whether or not you were charged or conviced in the justice system. And if you file an appeal, regardless of what you say or do there, there will be NO sharing of information with the justice system that would get you charged for something by them. What happens in unemployment appeals is going to stay there, regardless of what happens otherwise. While having seen many appeals on situations of this type and your chances of approval are really small, it would have no negative effect to do the appeal. What they would look at is "Did you know that a failure to card the individual might result in your termination and yet you chose to do it anyway?" and that is what gets it called "misconduct" in the unemployment system.
