In re the Claim of Mordukhayev

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed September 13, 2011, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant worked as a room attendant at a hotel for approximately 10 years. After reviewing the hotel’s lost property reports, the Director of Security suspected that claimant might be taking the items. As a result, he hired an outside surveillance company to set up video cameras in a room assigned to claimant, and he placed a mobile telephone equipped with a *1006…