H & A Sales Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish,

H & A Sales Company appeals an Unemployment Compensation Board of Review order granting benefits to Rhonda C. Spindler. We reverse.

Rhonda Spindler (then known as Richard) worked for H & A Sales for approximately four and one-half months as an industrial equipment salesperson, prior to obtaining a sex change operation. Based on her personal misgivings about her inability to meet and deal with her regular customers after the surgery, she voluntarily terminated her employment. The Board concluded Spindler quit for a necessitous and compelling reason and awarded…