Legal Opinion

Biczak Unemployment Compensation Case

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 12, 1962No. Appeal, No. 198Published

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Flood, J.,

The claimant voluntarily left her employment and consequently is not entitled to compensation unless she left for “cause of a necessitous and compelling nature”: *136Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(b)(1). The claimant testified before the referee that she left her job as house mother at a home for children because the pay was not sufficient for her needs. This is not necessitous or compelling cause under the act: Morris Unemployment Compensation Case, 196 Pa. Superior Ct. 68, 173 A. 2d 651 (1961).

Upon appeal to the board the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Progress Manufacturing Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of ReviewSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
  2. Morris Unemployment Compensation CaseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1961

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