Cooper v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Sandra L. Cooper (claimant) has appealed from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) denying her benefits. The Board concluded that the claimant had voluntarily terminated her employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature, and that, therefore, she was ineligible for benefits by force of Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1

The claimant was last employed at Hastings Rest Home as a nurse’s aid. On August 15, 1980, she quit her job. She applied for unemployment compensation; but the Office of Employment…