APPEAL - LATE FILING
The Appeals Board declined to reopen an appeal that was closed when the employer failed to submit appeal forms after initiating the appeal by telephone. The facts that a paralegal failed to file the forms because of a number of others that were in the same process, or that she was fired shortly after assuring employer that she had filed the forms and was no longer in touch, were not good cause for Employer's failure to complete the filing in a timely manner.
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