In re the Claim of Scarlino

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 17, 1997, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

The employer gave claimant, a secretary, permission to reduce her employment to a three-day work week for a one-month period in order to accommodate the medical needs of her father. When the employer refused to extend this part-time schedule indefinitely, claimant resigned. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ruled that claimant left her employment…