In re the Claim of Brown

— Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 25, 1991, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

There is substantial evidence in the record to support the *426conclusion by the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board that claimant’s late return from lunch, though only by a few minutes, constituted misconduct (see, Matter of Estrada [Levine], 49 AD2d 774). During the approximately 10 months that claimant worked for his employer he was absent from work numerous…