An appeals court reversed the state Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board’s finding that a woman was ineligible for jobless benefits because she babysat a coworker’s young daughter for free while laid off from her job.
An Appellate Division, Third Department, panel said the board improperly interpreted the term “totally unemployed” as it applied to Shannon Connerton and the period from September 2011 to June 2012, when she was laid off as an elementary school teacher from the Thousand Island Central School District and collecting unemployment benefits.
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