Unemployment Insurance Benefits Denial After Voluntary Termination Followed by Subsequent Employment Termination

A claimant appealed a decision by the unemployment insurance fund denying benefits due to insufficient contribution periods, where the claimant had been involuntarily unemployed following a period of voluntary termination of an employment relationship that had been terminated by notice after the claimant secured subsequent employment which was then also terminated. The court reasoned that the voluntary termination of the initial employment, even if followed by new employment, did not constitute involuntary unemployment, and therefore the previous contributions did not count toward satisfying the required contribution period for unemployment insurance benefits because the gap between the termination of the initial job and the start of the subsequent one, which was covered by the insurance, was deemed to be a self-inflicted interruption of insurance coverage for the purpose of meeting the prerequisite time under the relevant statute.