In re the Claim of Ramirez

—Mugglin, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 28, 2000, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

Claimant had been employed by a collection company as a shipping clerk for approximately 12 years. Since March 1996, he had been treated for seborrhea of the scalp. On May 16, 1999, his employer granted him a five-week leave of absence to go to the Dominican Republic to assist his parents with an immigration matter. Shortly before June 21, 1999,…