Matter of James (Levine)

Chief Judge Breitel.

These are three appeals argued together, each of the three claimants raising objection to the administrative application of the so-called doctrine of voluntary separation from employment by provoked discharge. Bach claimant, at one level or another of the procedure in the Division of Unemployment Insurance, was denied insurance benefits on the purported ground that each had provoked her discharge and had therefore terminated her employment voluntarily. In each case the Appellate Division affirmed the decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board and the claimants…