Baron v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board), which affirmed a referee’s denial of benefits on the ground that petitioner (claimant) voluntarily terminated his employment “without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature,” as required by Section 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(b)(1). We affirm.

Claimant had been employed approximately two months as a delivery truck driver for a Philadelphia company. On December…