Daley v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is the appeal of Wallace E. Daley (appellant) from an Order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which affirmed a referee’s decision terminating benefits to the appellant for failure to accept a job referral in violation of Section 402 (a) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law).1

On May 11, 1979, Daley was permanently laid off from his job as a machine operator'for the H'eppenstall Company. He had been employed by Heppenstall for approximately thirty-four years. Heppenstall’s plant was located approximately twenty-five miles from…