Tuono v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

In April 1979 Denise Tuono resigned her job as an administrative secretary with Hawthorne Advertising Company. Her application for unemployment compensation benefits was denied by the Office of Employment Security, a referee, and the Board of Review on the ground that her reasons for resigning were not “of a necessitous and compelling nature” as required by the Unemployment Compensation Law.1 The sole issue for our review is the correctness of this determination.2

At the hearing before the referee Ms. Tuono testified that she resigned: beacuse her employer was moving…