Burke v. Department of Employment Security

The claimant appeals a decision of the Employment Security Board denying him unemployment compensation benefits on the ground that he voluntarily left his job without good cause attributable to his employer, and thus was disqualified by 21 V.S.A. § 1344(a) (2) (A).

He left work on January 7, 1981, the date he discovered that his employer had breached its promise to provide medical insurance for its employees by allowing their Blue Cross/ Blue Shield coverage to lapse during the last three months of 1980. When he confronted his employer about the matter on January 7, 1981, he was told that…