In re the Claim of Swierkiewicz

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed October 14, 1997, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

On April 14, 1997, claimant, a senior vice-president of his company, hand-delivered a letter to the president’s office outlining what he perceived to be various work-related grievances. He felt he had reached a “glass ceiling” in his $240,000 a year job and concluded that he had “no other choice but to leave the company” provided certain…