Zielinski v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

This case asks us to decide the eligibility for unemployment benefits of a full-time teacher who was proffered per diem substitute work for the succeeding academic year; the novelty here is that benefits are not sought for the interim summer vacation period, but only for the time after the new school year began. Jean Zielinski (Claimant) applied for such benefits and the referee, in a decision summarily affirmed by the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board), denied them on the basis of Section 402.1 of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law), Act of December 5,…