In re the Claim of Burgees

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed April 18, 2002, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was discharged from her employment after it was discovered that she had entered the employer’s premises after regular business hours and used a computer to download a confidential list of the employer’s customers. This conduct violated the employer’s written policy, set forth in its employee handbook, prohibiting employees from copying and removing…