In re the Claim of Ramirez

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 13, 2015, which ruled that claimant was entitled to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

Claimant was employed for 11 months as a track worker for a municipal transit authority (hereinafter the employer). His employment was terminated after he was given a random drug test and a specimen of his urine tested positive for cocaine. He was initially disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits on the ground that his employment was terminated due to misconduct. Following extended proceedings before an…