Humanic v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Cbaig,

In this unemployment compensation appeal, claimant,1 an excavation laborer, questions the board’s2 affirmance of a referee’s decision denying him benefits on the ground that claimant was not “available for suitable work”3 during the period involved.

*430J.D.S. Excavation discharged claimant January 2, 1979, for lack of work. On January 30, 1979, claimant, having filed for benefits and in continued claims status, departed for Florida with his wife for five weeks in a camper, allegedly to look for work. The Office of Employment Security informed claimant, when he left for…