Myers v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Robert A. Myers, Jr. (claimant) has appealed from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which affirmed a referee’s refusal to award him unemployment compensation. He was disqualified from benefits pursuant to Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law1 for voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.

The claimant had been employed for approximately two years as a supervisor in the accounting department of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) when he began to experience *386sy…