Arufo v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

This is an appeal by Cecile Arufo (claimant) from an order of. the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s denial of benefits on the basis that claimant voluntarily left her employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature under Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Act), Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(b)(1). We reverse.

Claimant was last employed as a bookkeeper/office manager by the Hand Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia, where she had been…