The Internet may have built a global village, but online job hunting from overseas doesn’t qualify the seeker for unemployment compensation, a New Jersey appeals court says.

Tanya Vialet’s “efforts to remain electronically linked to the marketplace do not overcome her physical absence,” the Appellate Division held, since if offered a job, she would have been unable to start for several weeks.

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