Blair v. Poythress

Blackburn, Judge.

We granted Blair’s discretionary application to determine whether continued abusive treatment by an employer constitutes “good cause” to justify an employee’s voluntary cessation of employment and prevent the disqualification from the receipt of unemployment compensation benefits under OCGA § 34-8-194.

The. appellant, Ann Blair, had been employed with her most recent employer, Sarge’s Broasted Chicken, as a cook intermittently for approximately five years prior to June 1992. Before an administrative hearing officer, Blair testified that she had been subjected to verbal abuse…