Shingles v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Jack Shingles appeals an Unemployment Compensation Board of Review order upholding a referees decision which denied him benefits due to a voluntary quit without necessitous and compelling reason. Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1 We reverse.

Shingles, a pharmacist employed by the Rite Aid Corporation, was assigned to two company stores located in Quakertown. Several months later he agreed to a temporary transfer to an East Stroudsburg store, involving a ninety-five mile roundtrip commute. As a result of his complaints, Shingles was…