Legal Opinion

Gavlick Personnel Services, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 9, 1998Published

1Opinion of the Court

NARICK, Senior Judge.

The issue before this Court is whether notifying an employer of sexual misconduct by a co-worker is sufficient to prove cause of a necessitous and compelling reason for terminating employment.

Gavlick Personnel Services, Inc. (Employer) appeals from the order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (UCBR) that affirmed the referee’s grant of benefits to Diane Walsh, pursuant to Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law), Act of December 5,1936, Second Ex.Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. § 802(b). We affirm.

The UCBR made the following…

2Cases cited5 opinions

Colduvell v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
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St. Barnabas, Inc. v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
Porter v. District of Columbia Department of Employment ServicesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1993
Lapham v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1987