Morelli v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Claimant, John T. Morelli, appeals from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) denying him benefits for the claim weeks ending December 15, 1979 and December 22, 1979. That denial was based upon a determination that the claimant was self-employed during those claim weeks and, therefore, ineligible for benefits by force of Section 402(h) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law).1

The record shows that claimant’s employment with National Fuel Gas was phased out after claimant had been employed there for seventeen years, and that his last…