In re the Claim of Janakievski

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 9, 2016, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he failed to file a valid original claim.

Claimant worked as a warehouse coordinator for Landmark Industries, a sheltered workshop that operates a vocational and rehabilitative work program at Rochester Psychiatric Center (hereinafter RPC). Landmark workshops and programs, which are open only to RPC psychiatric patients meeting certain criteria, provide an opportunity for patients to develop appropriate work behaviors…