McMeil v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

Laverne McNeil (Claimant) has appealed from a decision and order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board), which sustained the referee’s decision to deny Claimant benefits. The Board found Claimant ineligible for benefits under 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)(l), which provides in part that an employee is ineligible for benefits when he leaves work without cause of a necessitous or compelling nature.

Claimant was employed for eighteen months…