Michelcavage v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

John Michelcavage (Claimant) appeals here from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) dated December 31, 1979, that denied him unemployment compensation benefits under Section 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1

*426The facts are uncontested. Claimant was employed as a heavy equipment mechanic by the No. 1 Contracting Corporation, West Pittston, Pennsylvania (Employer). In the latter part of the summer of 1979, he was assigned to a project on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands at a salary of $2000 per month.2 After six weeks on the…