Liebrum v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

Barbara C. Liebrum, an unemployed trough line plater and mother of three young children, was denied *403further unemployment compensation benefits when she refused two simultaneous offers of reemployment involving rotating shift work.1 Her proffered justifications that the rate of pay was too low and that parental responsibilities prevented her acceptance of employment on any but the third shift were accepted by neither the referee nor the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board). Raising the same contentions, Liebrum appealed the Board’s order affirming the…