In re the Claim of O'Shea

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 28, 1995, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was employed as a maintenance worker assigned to work at a building owned by IBM, a customer of the employer’s property management service. Claimant was discharged after it was discovered that he had taken a computer terminal from the office premises at IBM, concealing it in a storage area in violation of the employer’s policy prohibiting the commingling…