In re the Claim of Cabreja

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed March 19, 1987, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant had been employed cleaning hospital rooms for Mount Sinai Medical Center for about two years before she was fired for complicity in the theft of hospital property. The incident which gave rise to her termination occurred on November 3, 1985, her last day at work. At about 11:45 a.m. on that day, hospital security observed a male (later identified as Juan…