Brennan v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Anthony Brennan, Audrey P. Peterson and Renee S. Ouslander, representative claimants1 of Intermittent Intake Interviewers of the Office of Employment Security (OES), appeal from orders by the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, which, granting unemployment benefits based the amount of benefits on the claimants ’ highest quarterly wages. The claimants contend that, according to Section 404(a) (1) of *232the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law,2 their unemployment benefits should be calculated instead at fifty per cent of their full-time weekly wages.

Because the…