In re the Claim of Gruber

*228OPINION OF THE COURT

Titone, J.

Labor Law § 593 (1) provides that claimants will be disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits if they voluntarily separate without good cause from their "last employment” prior to the filing of an unemployment claim. In each of these two cases, the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board determined that the words "last employment” as used in that section did not refer to the last covered "employment” as that term is defined in Labor Law § 511, but referred to the claimant’s last actual employment, regardless of whether that employment was covered by…