Westfall v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal by Wilma Lois Westfall (claimant) from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) dated August 30, 1976 which affirmed a referee’s determination that she had voluntarily terminated her employment without showing cause of a compelling and necessitous nature and was therefore ineligible for benefits under Section 402 (b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law1 (Act).

The facts in this case are undisputed. The claimant bad been employed by Royal Dry Cleaners' (employer) for approximately two and one-half years, originally as a…