In re the Claim of Fernandez

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 19, 1996, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

While working as a bus boy in a restaurant, claimant was instructed by his assistant manager to serve a table of new customers a dessert that had been especially prepared by the owner’s wife. When claimant refused to cooperate, the assistant manager instructed him to leave the table. Claimant then left the employer’s premises and never returned. After…