Kawa v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW

BARRY, Senior Judge.

Constance Kawa, administratrix of the Estate of Tyler Lobb (Lobb), appeals an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which affirmed a decision of the referee denying Lobb benefits because of Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex.Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. § 802(b) (voluntarily quitting work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature).

Lobb had been employed by Lobb Mining Co. as an oiler. He had worked there for almost a year until he quit on January 27, 1989 because he…