In re the Claim of Murtaugh

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 21, 2000, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

There is substantial evidence in the record to support the finding by the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board that there were no compelling reasons for claimant’s unemployment and that his period of unemployment was contrived by claimant and his employer (see, Matter of Contro [Commissioner of Labor], 270 AD2d 557; Matter of McNeil [Hudacs],…