Heriger Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

Claimant, Lucille Heriger, has appealed from the order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review refusing her unemployment compensation for the reason that she voluntarily terminated her employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.

The facts found by the board and supported by the evidence established that claimant, when four months pregnant, requested and received a leave of absence from her employer, the Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Brookville, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 1959 although *573work was available for her at the time. She did not…