Rivard v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

In this appeal by a claimant for unemployment compensation benefits, we are presented with the questions whether a person whose employment was barred by statute, because of his own act, may nevertheless receive unemployment compensation when the employer, realizing the statutory prohibition, ceased to employ the claimant. In the terms of G. L. c. 151A, § 25 (e) (1), may benefits be denied to such a person because he left his job “voluntarily”? At least in the circumstance of this case, we conclude that a *529person who causes the statutory impediment that bars his employment leaves his employment…