McKeown v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The claimant, Raymond McKeown, seeks reversal of an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying him benefits as a voluntary quit pursuant to §402 (b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5,1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(b)(l).

The facts as found by the referee, following a hearing at which the claimant and his witnesses testified but which the employer did not attend, are as follows. The claimant was employed by a meat processing enterprise as a cook for about four months. On his last day of work…