Matter of Maldonado (Commissioner of Labor)

Appeals (1) from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 26, 2015, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause, and (2) from a decision of said Board, filed October 30, 2015, which denied claimant’s application for reopening and reconsideration.

Claimant, an adjunct college professor, was hired to teach a mathematics course during the September 2014 semester. When students from the class complained to the Dean at the college about the fast pace at which claimant…