Danner v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Beatt,

The petitioner, Richard D. Danner, who says that he terminated his employment because of harassment by fellow workers, now challenges a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which denied benefits on the ground that he did not notify his supervisor of the harassment and that he therefore did not have necessitous and compelling cause to quit.1

The petitioner had the burden of establishing that he had a necessitous and compelling cause for terminating his employment and it is generally required that, in sustaining this burden, a claimant must…