In re the Claim of Hicks

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 22, 2003, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

At the end of April 2003, claimant lost her full-time job with a gas and electric company and applied for unemployment insurance benefits. Meanwhile, claimant asked to be removed from the May schedule of her part-time employment at a supermarket—which consisted of one or two days on the weekends—for a few weeks, citing the recent loss of her…