Londahl v. Employment Division

Claimant petitions for review of an order of the Employment Appeals Board that adopted a referee’s order denying her unemployment benefits. We reverse and remand.

Claimant, who is mentally handicapped, was employed as a bus person at The Hickory Stick Restaurant from November 1976 to October 1983. The issue presented is whether she voluntarily left her employment without good cause. ORS 657.176.(2)(c). OAR 471-30-038(4) defines “good cause”:

“[S]uch that a reasonable and prudent person of normal sensitivity, exercising ordinary common sense, would leave work. The reason must be of such gravity…