Cotton v. Maine Employment Security Commission

WERNICK, Justice.

Employee Carlton C. Cotton has appealed from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) sustaining the decision of the Employment Security Commission (Commission) disqualifying him from receiving unemployment benefits from May 20, 1979 until he earned $384.00. The ground of the disqualification was that Cotton had voluntarily “left his employment without good cause attributable to such employment.” 26 M.R.S.A. § 1193(1XA)

At the time of his separation from employment with Hansen Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., Cotton had been working for approximately seven years as…