In re the Claim of Lazar

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed October 3, 2002, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was discharged from her employment as a mail sorter on the grounds that she disregarded the employer’s work rules, was insubordinate and disrupted the work place. The record establishes that claimant attempted to remove a paper jam from a mail sorting machine with a hair pin. When a supervisor told her that in accordance with the employer’s rules she…