A city maintenance employee who took a candy bar and a fountain drink from the concession stand of a nonprofit youth soccer league has been fired from his job, but has been able to claim unemployment compensation because his actions did not amount to misconduct that disqualified him from unemployment compensation. The worker testified that league employees had allowed city workers, including himself, to help themselves to items in the concession stand. An appellate court in Missouri has distinguished between violation of an employer’s rule justifying the employee’s discharge and the violation of an employer’s rule that warrants a finding of misconduct to deny unemployment compensation. “...