Matter of Mead (Commr. of Labor)

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 9, 2015, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant worked as a packer for an ice cream manufacturing company for 11 years. She was chronically absent from work and, between March 2015 and May 2015, received three warnings from her employer regarding this problem. The final written warning, issued in May 2015 after claimant had exhausted her personal leave, advised her that further absenteeism would…