In re the Claim of Brennan

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed October 22, 2002, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was employed as the local station manager of a religious broadcasting network. In December 2001, she was verbally reprimanded for refusing, initially, to contact a client to relate the employer’s decision—which claimant disagreed with— not to air the client’s program. In January 2002, claimant was placed on a 90-day period of probation for…