Dawkins Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

The claimant, Rosie Lee Dawkins, in this unemployment compensation appeal, was last employed by Alvin Lash Wholesale Shirt Laundry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1960. At that time she terminated her employment to go to Buffalo, New York, to take care of her sister’s mentally retarded son and home. Continued work was available.

The Bureau of Employment Security and the Referee concluded that the claimant had voluntarily terminated her employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature and this disqualified her from benefits under the provisions…