Unemployment Compensation Board of Review of the Commonwealth v. Pinger

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

Edmund G. Pinger (appellant) appeals to this Court from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which terminated his unemployment benefits because of his alleged discouraging reply to an offer of employment.

The Board denied further benefits by invoking Section 402(a) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(a), which provides in pertinent part:

“An employe shall be ineligible for compensation for any week—

“(a) In which his unemployment is due to failure, without…