Craighead-Jenkins v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Louise Craighead-Jenkins (Claimant) petitions for review of an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board), affirming a referee’s denial of compensation for voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature. 1 We affirm.

Claimant was employed as the executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP (Employer) from December 1998. Six months into her employment, a conflict arose between Claimant and Employer’s board secretary. The board of directors resolved the matter in Claimant’s favor. At the end of 2000, in an…