In re the Claim of Mahmud

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed April 21, 1992, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he had insufficient weeks of covered employment.

Claimant worked for his employer from 1986 until his discharge on May 10, 1989. As a result of a grievance filed by his union, an arbitrator determined that claimant had been wrongfully discharged and ordered his reinstatement, with back pay for the period May 8, 1989 to October 1, 1989. Claimant thereafter returned to work on September 25, 1990. He sustained an…