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IN RE: the Claim of Jacqueline A. DE JOHN, Appellant. Commissioner of Labor, Respondent.
Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed May 21, 1999, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.
Claimant resigned her employment as a sales associate for a department store citing her dissatisfaction with her position and the fact that she did not receive selling incentive bonuses while she was on “ warning status” for alleged unprofessional behavior on the job. Substantial evidence supports the ruling of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board that claimant left her employment under disqualifying circumstances. It is well settled that dissatisfaction with job duties and wages does not constitute good cause for leaving employment (see, Matter of Gega [Commissioner of Labor], 272 A.D.2d 738, 708 N.Y.S.2d 493; Matter of Bartczak [Commissioner of Labor], 272 A.D.2d 731, 707 N.Y.S.2d 718). While claimant maintained that she was never advised at the time of hire that commissions or bonuses would be suspended for employees on warning status, the conflict between claimant's testimony and the documentary evidence and witness testimony provided by the employer created a credibility issue properly resolved by the Board (see, Matter of Pietropaolo [Commissioner of Labor], 271 A.D.2d 795, 706 N.Y.S.2d 210).
The remaining issues raised by claimant have been examined and found to be similarly unpersuasive.
ORDERED that the decision is affirmed, without costs.
MEMORANDUM DECISION.
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Decided: September 21, 2000
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.
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