Kubiak v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s denial of benefits to appellant on the grounds that she voluntarily left work “without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.”1 We affirm.

Appellant’s home was destroyed by fire on November 14,1974. As a result, appellant suffered emotional upset and a great deal of emotional stress, which caused her to be absent seven days from the job she had performed satisfactorily for nearly seven years. Upon her return to work, appellant believed that her…