Gredvig v. Employment Division

This is a petition to review an order of the Employment Appeals Board denying claimant’s unemployment compensation claim. The denial, which reversed the decision of the referee, was on the ground that claimant had refused to accept "suitable work” with Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. ORS 657.155(1)(c), 657.176(2)(e).

The essential facts were that claimant, a conscientious objector, was employed in the hospital’s culinary department as an alternative service to entering the armed forces. He worked from January 1973 to September 2, 1974, at a rate of $2.38 per hour.

Claimant completed his…