Goughnour v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jb.,

Valerie B. Goughnour (claimant) appeals from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) denying her benefits. The Board initially had remanded the case to the referee to take additional evidence, which the Board used to make supplemental findings of its own. The Board then affirmed the referee’s determination that the claimant had voluntarily terminated her employment “without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature,” and was therefore ineligible for benefits by mandate of Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1

The…