Mignacca v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

The claimant, a sewing machine operator, has appealed from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying her benefits on the ground that, after working only six hours on a new job, she voluntarily quit that position, which she had accepted after having been laid off by another company from similar work. We affirm.

The only dispute of fact is whether or not the new position involved work to which claimant was not accustomed. No evidence in the record impugns the referee’s finding, adopted by the board, that the new work was “substantially similar” to…