Ardan v. Board of Review

New Jersey’s Unemployment Compensation Law provides that a person who leaves work “voluntarily without good cause attributable to such work” is ineligible for unemployment benefits until she is “reemployed and works eight weeks in employment” in a new position. N.J.S.A. 43:21-5(a). A regulation prescribes an exception to that rule. It provides that if the claimant left a previous job “due to a physical and/or mental condition or state of health” that “does not have a work-connected origin but is aggravated by working conditions,” she is not disqualified from receiving benefits, “provided…