Penn Hills School District v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish,

An Unemployment Compensation Board of Review decision awarding benefits to a school bus driver whose working days were lost to inclement weather is reversed.1

Catherine A. Baratta, a school bus driver, was employed by the Penn Hills School District both prior to and after the controversial school days during the 1977-78 school year. Repeated snowstorms cancelled *293pupil attendance in the district for seven nonconsecutive days in January, 1978.2 Student bus transportation for those days was also cancelled. Barat-ía then applied for unemployment compensation.

The…