Shorey v. Department of Employment Security

The plaintiff was denied unemployment compensation on the ground that he left his employment voluntarily without good cause attributable to the employer. The facts concededly establish that the employer expressly indicated that the plaintiff would get a pay raise. After several months passed from the first raise request, punctuated by various temporizing promises, as well as a firm statement of intent to give a raise from the employer, the plaintiff was told that he would not get any increase. He thereupon quit.

The department analogized this case to a situation where there was an expectation…