Unemployment Compensation Board of Review of the Commonwealth v. Ostrander

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

It is the declared policy of this Commonwealth under Section 3 of the Unemployment Compensation Law 1 (Act), 43 P. S. §752, to provide economic security to persons “during periods when they become unemployed through no fault of their own.” Our Supreme Court has said: “That section is not merely a perfunctory preface but is, rather, the keystone upon which the entire Act rests and the basis upon which individual sections of the Act must be interpreted and construed.” Lybarger Unemployment Compensation Case, 418 Pa. 471, 476, 211 A.2d 463, 466 (1965). The…