In re the Claim of Smith

Appeal (1) from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 16,1980, which reversed the decision of a referee and sustained the initial determination of the Industrial Commissioner holding claimant eligible for benefits upon the ground that she was totally unemployed during the period in issue, and (2) from a decision of the board, filed September 4, 1981, which denied the employer’s application to reopen. Claimant was employed as an art teacher in 1976. In the spring of 1979, she was denied tenure and advised that her employment would end on June 30,1979. Claimant’s…