Ford Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

In this unemployment compensation case the claimant was held to be ineligible for compensation benefits by the Bureau, the Referee and the Board successively, under the provisions of §402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS §802(b)(1), which provides: “. . . That a voluntary leaving work because of pregnancy, whether or not the employer is able to provide other work, shall be deemed not a cause of a necessitous and compelling nature:”.

The claimant, Doris Ford, was last employed by the Springfield Federal Savings & Loan Association, Springfield,…