In re the Claim of Georgatos

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 22, 2011, which, among other things, ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

Claimant was employed as a sales assistant to a stock broker at a brokerage office in New York from February 2008 to May 2009. The employer testified that claimant received his last pay check on May 7, 2009, after which he stopped reporting to work and allegedly began working for a broker who had previously stopped working for the…