In re the Claim of Harper

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, which denied claimant benefits on the ground that he voluntarily left his employment without good cause by provoking his discharge. Claimant, a chef employed for approximately eight months at the employer’s restaurant, did not receive notice of the first hearing at which the employer testified that claimant was drunk most of the time during *976the last two weeks of his employment and that one day he just got mad and left. The hoard determined that he voluntarily left his employment without good cause. Claimant applied to reopen…