Kownacki v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

Since these four unemployment compensation cases have substantially identical facts and are controlled by the same principles of law, they will be covered by this one opinion and order which will be entered to each term and number. These four cases were heard together by *311the referee and by the hearing officer for the Board of Review.

At the time of the hearing, the four claimant-appellants, all women, ranged in age from 35 to 52 and in weight from 129 pounds to 150 pounds. They had been in the employ of their last employer for periods ranging from 7 to 13 years and…