Weir v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Deborah Weir, an unemployment compensation claimant, has filed a petition for review of an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (board), affirming a referee’s denial of benefits on the ground that she had voluntarily left her work without cause of necessitous and compelling nature. 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. §8Q2(ib).

The claimant was employed by Century Graphics as a bindery worker from May, 1982 until September 21,1983, the day she…