Cowls v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

John J. Cowls, a claimant for unemployment compensation, appeals from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying him benefits. The Board affirmed a referee’s decision that the claimant had voluntarily quit his employment without cause of a “necessitous and compelling nature,” and was thus ineligible for benefits by force of Section 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(b)(1).

Until December 15, 1978, Cowls was employed as a driver-salesman for the…