Matter of Schaefer (Commissioner of Labor)

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 10, 2015, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant, a bus driver with a school district, was charged with misconduct stemming from her alleged mismanagement of students on her bus during an incident in October 2014, being uncooperative with school district personnel during a field trip and calling a parent of a student and requesting that the student wait for the bus at an unapproved bus stop without…