Emmitt v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Senior Judge Kalish,

We affirm the order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s decision which denied benefits to Frederick Emmitt on the ground that he had voluntarily terminated his employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.

Emmitt worked for the Hatfield Packing Company for three days as a casing puller on the kill floor where the butchered pigs were cut up for processing. The Board found that Emmitt voluntarily terminated his employment because he believed that the work was making him nauseous and unable to consume…