Yoora Pak (Partner-McLean, VA | Baltimore, MD | Washington, D.C.) was cited as a source in a USA Today August 9, 2021, article titled “Fact Check: Workers Fired for Refusing a Vaccine Are Unlikely to Qualify for Unemployment.” Yoora also was quoted in msn’s August 12, 2021, article titled “Post Offers Misleading Advice on Mandatory Vaccines and Unemployment Benefits.” Both describe a misleading Facebook post stating employees should not quit their jobs due to vaccine requirements, but instead wait to be fired and collect unemployment benefits. The claim, per USA Today, is “partly false.” When an employee quits, or is fired for cause, unemployment benefits are typically not awarded; however, every employer must make reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities and religious exemptions. In msn, Yoora notes that a state “unemployment agency may see an employee’s refusal to get vaccinated as a voluntary resignation, which may disqualify you from benefits.”

Read the USA Today article.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/09/fact-check-workers-fired-over-vaccination-can-denied-unemployment/5518818001/

Read the msn article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/post-offers-misleading-advice-on-mandatory-vaccines-and-unemployment-benefits/ar-AANfPzh?ocid=BingNewsSearch