The Commonwealth Court has ruled that a claimant who was laid off from his full-time union job should not be denied unemployment benefits based on a single shift at a dog day care for which he earned $74.39.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court said the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, in reaching its benefits determination, incorrectly considered that one day’s work at the dog day care and the claimant’s subsequent request not to be scheduled for future shifts to be a voluntary resignation without a necessitous and compelling reason.
