My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Illinois
I was fired a few weeks ago. The word "misconduct" was never mentioned when they informed me I no longer worked there.I applied for unemployment benefits and I received the denial in the mail:cannot collect because of the misconduct"as the claimant instructed another employee to forge a manager's signature on a legal document"I did not instruct her to forge someone else's signature,I simply told her to sign for him(since he was not on site that day and the application had to be processed). Signing for other people was something that has been done in the past-signed for them and mot signature.I said"sign FOR him"-not sign HIS name.A week later the HR manager asked me what happened and at that time I was informed she signed the manager's name and not hers.A month later I was fired because I "did not make a good call that day". The person that signed was told "for a year you will not be promoted". Can I fight this misconduct discharge?I was with the company for 6 years. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

