Eckley Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an unemployment compensation case in which the claimant was denied benefits under the provision that, “his unemployment is due to voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature. . . .” Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS §802(b). The Bureau of Employment Security, the Referee and the Board of Review, all, so decided.

The board found that the claimant, Archibald Eckley, 60 years old, was last employed as a fireman and janitor by Scotty Fashions, Lehighton, Pennsylvania. During the summer months he received $15 a…