ALBANY – An upstate appeals court has upheld unemployment insurance benefits for a nurse who is also an attorney and who quit her job at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center because she believed she could face professional discipline charges for falsely attesting to having witnessed patients signing informed consent forms.
While a worker’s departure that is deemed voluntary by state labor officials in most cases prohibits them from qualifying for unemployment benefits, the Appellate Division, Third Department, held that Jean M. Emery had justifiable concerns about potential ethical conflicts that were not addressed by the Sloan Kettering officials to whom she complained.
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