Slippery Rock Area School District v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION

Justice GREENSPAN.

This appeal presents the question of whether a substitute school teacher was entitled to receive unemployment benefits for the summer vacation period between the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years under Section 402.1(1) of the Unem ployment Compensation Act (the Act). 1 In an en banc opinion, the Commonwealth Court held that as a long-term substitute returning in the second academic year as a day-to-day substitute, the school teacher would not be eligible to receive unemployment benefits. For the following reasons, we reverse.

I. Background

During the 2006-07 school…