Miller v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Smith B. Miller (claimant) appeals here from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review which affirmed the referee in denying benefits on the grounds that the claimant had left his employment without cause of a necessitous or compelling-nature. Section 402(b) of the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law (Law), Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(b).

On November 26, 1979 the claimant, a construction inspector who had been employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) for sixteen…