Matter of Connerton (Commr. of Labor)

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed April 16, 2014, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she was not totally unemployed.

Claimant, an elementary school teacher, cared for a coworker’s young daughter at various times between September 2011 and June 2012 during a period when she was laid off from her teaching job. She did so while she was at home caring for her own young son and the coworker did not pay her for her services. During the time that claimant provided childcare for the coworker, she received…