Opinion
November 13, 1963.
December 12, 1963.
Unemployment Compensation — Refusal of suitable job — Failure to report for physical examination required for new job.
In an unemployment compensation case, in which it appeared that claimant, last employed as a machine operator at $1.61 an hour, was offered a referral to a possible job opportunity as a packer at $1.94 an hour; that she was interviewed and was advised that she could start several days later, pending a physical examination the next day, but claimant failed to report for the physical examination; and that claimant asserted that she was ill at the time, but she had failed to notify the Bureau, or the prospective employer, of her reason for failing to appear and had made no effort to reschedule a physical examination; it was Held that claimant was disqualified, under § 402(a) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, for failure to properly pursue a suitable job referral.
Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.
Appeal, No. 265, April T., 1963, by claimant, from decision of Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. B-79365, in re claim of Veronica M. Erb. Decision affirmed.
Louis D. Cooper, for appellant.
Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, with him Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, for Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, appellee.
Argued November 13, 1963.
In this unemployment compensation case the authorities all held that the claimant had failed to properly pursue a suitable job referral, showing a lack of good faith, and was disqualified under the provisions of § 402(a) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 P. S. § 802(a).
The claimant, Veronica M. Erb, was last employed by Papercraft Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a machine operator at $1.61 an hour, on November 30, 1962. She was offered a referral to a possible job opportunity as a packer at $1.94 an hour with the National Biscuit Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 31, 1963. She was interviewed and was advised she could start on February 4, 1963 pending a physical examination the next day. She failed to report for the physical examination. She now claims she was ill at the time but she failed to notify the Bureau or the prospective employer of her reason for failing to appear and made no effort to reschedule the physical examination. The Board found the referral to be suitable work and that her conduct showed a lack of good faith. DeArment Unemployment Compensation Case, 192 Pa. Super. 600, 162 A.2d 53 (1960).
Decision affirmed.