In re the Claim of Polax

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 16, 1994, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

Claimant was employed as a provisional motor vehicle operator for the New York City Department of Correction. He left his employment for an extended period of time without prior authorization allegedly to attend to his sick wife in Indonesia. While he was away, his employer requested that his employment be terminated. In lieu of termination, however,…