In re the Claim of Cuevas

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed September 27, 1996, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was employed as a Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide *719for a State agency until he was discharged in 1995 for verbally abusing and threatening his supervisor with physical harm. Following an arbitration hearing held pursuant to claimant’s collective bargaining agreement, the independent arbitrator found that just cause existed for claimant’s termination…