In re the Claim of Batts

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed October 23, 1998, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant, a program director for a social service agency’s crime victims program, was discharged after it was discovered that he had submitted a grant proposal on behalf of a competing agency. No evidence was presented to establish that claimant submitted a funding proposal on behalf of the employer; indeed, claimant furnished false information to the funding *933b…