Over the last several months, three new unemployment compensation cases have been decided by courts that are critical for practitioners to keep in mind as they pursue their unemployment compensation cases.
The first case is Imani Christian Academy v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 42 A.3d 1171 (Pa.Cmwlth.2012). In Imani, the employer is a Christian school that, in defense of an unemployment compensation claim, argued that the claimant for the unemployment compensation benefits could not collect them because it is a church. Under unemployment compensation law, employment that qualifies an employee for benefits does not include services performed for a church or an organization operated primarily for religious purposes. Based on the evidence presented at the referees hearing, it was revealed that even though the school was a Christian school and included religious classes, it operated primarily for educational purposes. Therefore, the school could not seek exemption from the unemployment compensation benefits on the basis of being a church or operating primarily for religious purposes. The court implied that the school simply did not provide sufficient evidence to prove its argument, so the lesson from this matter is to be sure the testimony and evidence provided is both substantive and sufficient to prove a partys claims.
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