Lattanzio v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Section 402 of the Unemployment Compensation Act provides in part that “[a]n employee shall be ineligible for compensation for any week ... in which his unemployment is due to failure, without good cause . to accept suitable work when offered to him by the employment office of or by any employer . . . ’b1 *401The Court today decides that appellant was improperly denied unemployment compensation benefits because “there was ‘good cause’ for [him] to reject the proffered employment under the conditions imposed”. Opinion of the Court, ante at 598. I respectfully dissent.

Preliminarily, I must note…