Woodson v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

In James v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 6 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 489, 296 A. 2d 288 (1972), we recognized that racial discrimination could be the compelling and necessitous cause for a voluntary termination of employment and, where the record disclosed by substantial evidence that such was the fact, the claimant would be entitled to unemployment compensation benefits.

We are concerned here with appeals in four cases from four orders of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) disallowing appeals from adjudications of a Referee denying the claims…