Vazquez v. GFC Builders Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• employee who was specifically told that he would not be required to do lawn maintenance was not guilty of misconduct when he refused to do lawn maintenance work without additional compensation
• employer may modify or change an employee’s work assignments so long as the new requirements are reasonable, within the ambit of the position for which the employee was hired, and applied in a non-discriminatory fashion
• “[I]f there is a positive understanding at the outset ... that an employee will not be required to perform a certain task, we hold that the employer cannot renege on the understanding and, based thereon, charge the employee with misconduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).