In re the Claim of Allen

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 22, 2004, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

Claimant was employed as a day reporting counselor. This position, in turn, required claimant to obtain and maintain a jail pass issued by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department. Claimant’s jail pass was revoked by the jail administration after he used it to access the jail to visit an inmate for personal reasons. Thereafter, the Sheriffs Department refused…