In re the Claim of Serra

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 29, 1995, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was employed as an electrician from April 1987 *809until August 1993, when the employer’s personnel office learned that he had become addicted to prescription medication. The employer responded by enrolling claimant, at the employer’s expense, in a residential drug rehabilitation program at New York Hospital. When claimant left the four-week program after…