McDermott v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board

Opinion by

Judge Palladino,

This is an appeal from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which denied unemployment compensation benefits to Warren McDermott (Claimant) pursuant to Section 402 (b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law)1 which provides in pertinent part that “ [a]n employe shall be ineligible for compensation for any week ... [i]n which his unemployment is due to voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature . . . .” We affirm.

Claimant was last employed as the chief executive officer of the Daily Corporation…