In re the Claim of Ahmed

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 5, 1998, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was employed cleaning tables at a restaurant until he was discharged for violating the employer’s policy requiring employees to immediately give management any property left behind by a customer. The record establishes that, despite the fact that he knew of the employer’s policy and had complied *562with it in the past, claimant pocketed a portable…