In re the Claim of Jacobson

Appeal by the claimant from a denial by the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board of unemployment benefits on the ground that he voluntarily quit his employment without good cause. (Labor Law, § 596, subd. 1.) Appellant urges that he was justified in believing he had been discharged. The record, however, is susceptible of the interpretation that although severely reprimanded, appellant was not told he was discharged, but was in fact transferred to other work. The next day he came to his place of employment, picked up his tools and left of his own accord without notifying his employer or making…