Peda v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Peter Peda appeals an Unemployment Compensation Board of Review order which affirmed a referee’s denial of benefits. We vacate and remand.

When Peda’s wife was hospitalized for psychiatric care, he terminated his employment in order to be home in the evenings to care for his sixteen year old daughter. The referee denied him benefits and the Board affirmed finding that the desire to care for his daughter did not constitute a “cause of necessitous and compelling nature.” Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1

We will not consider this issue…