In re the Claim of Blair

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 30, 1982, which disqualified claimant from receiving unemployment benefits because she lost her employment through misconduct. Following her conviction upon a plea of guilty of criminally possessing marihuana, a misdemeanor, claimant, a nurse’s assistant, was discharged from her hospital position. The administrative law judge determined that her discharge was for job-related misconduct, thus barring claimant from obtaining unemployment benefits. The appeal board agreed and this appeal ensued. We affirm.…