Reardon v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

We are required in this case once again to draw that very fine line between those who are ineligible for benefits under the Unemployment Compensation Law1 because they are primarily students who also work and those who are eligible for benefits because they are workers who also go to school. The instant claimant, Paul R. Reardon, Jr., asks ns to place him in the latter category.

In March 1973, when he was 19 years old, claimant began working full time for General Electric in Reading. Within a few months he secured a position as bench hand, a position he retained for the…