In re the Claim of Cannavina

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed April 4, 2000, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

The record establishes that the employer directed claimant, a field service computer technician, to go to Boston, Massachusetts, as he had done numerous times before, in order to assist a client with a service problem. Despite being warned that his refusal would result in his discharge, claimant declined and asked for “emergency” vacation time to offer moral…