Greif v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion bt

Judge Craig,

Claimant Arthur J. Greif appeals an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review which affirmed a referee’s decision denying claimant benefits under the Unemployment Compensation Law,1 on the basis of a voluntary quit.

The claimant was employed as a .staff attorney for the Pittsburgh regional office of .the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (employer). On Sunday night, August 3, 1980, claimant returned to Pittsburgh from a vacation, went to his office and wrote a disjointed, two-page, “resignation” memorandum, which he time-stamped at 5:21 a.m., on August…