Prystash Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

The appellant in this unemployment compensation case was denied benefits by the board because she refused to accept a referral to employment.

She had been employed for several years at $280 a month when she was placed on maternity leave of absence on May 15, 1961. Her child was born in October 1961 and her maternity leave expired in December 1961. She did not register for employment or seek unemployment compensation benefits until May 1962, when she qualified and received $33 a week compensation. About that time her former employer decided to move its establishment, and…