Peddicord v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

CRAIG, President Judge.

Joanne Peddicord (claimant) appeals an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review affirming a referee’s decision denying benefits because the claimant voluntarily left her employment with Eastern Off Road Equipment (employ-, er) without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature as required by § 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law. 1

The facts, as found by the board, are that the claimant was employed as a product line manager for six and one-half years. In 1986, shortly after the claimant began her employment, a male co-worker suggested that she…