Opinion
March 9, 1959.
April 16, 1959.
Unemployment Compensation — Voluntary termination of employment — Necessitous and compelling nature — Failure to receive increase in salary.
In an unemployment compensation case, in which it appeared that claimant voluntarily terminated her employment as a secretary because she was refused an increase in salary, it was Held that the board properly concluded that claimant was disqualified from receiving benefits because she had voluntarily left her employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.
Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.
Appeal, No. 50, March T., 1959, by claimant, from decision of Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. B-48347, in re claim of Phoebe Mink Wood. Decision affirmed.
Phoebe Mink Wood, appellant, in propria persona, submitted a brief.
Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, with him Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for appellee.
Argued March 9, 1959.
The appellant, whose claim for unemployment compensation was denied by the board, was last employed as a secretary by Capital Products Corporation, Mechanicsburg. In October 1957, she requested an increase in her salary which was then $57.50 per week. She was told that an increase would be forthcoming, but that it would depend upon her work. When she did not receive the increase it had, in her words, "a decidedly frustrating and demoralizing effect and I felt compelled, involuntarily, to resign," which she did March 14, 1958.
The board properly held that she was disqualified from receiving benefits by the provisions of Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 P. S. § 802(b) because she had voluntarily left her employment without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature. McGuire v. Unemployment Compensation Board, 169 Pa. Super. 467, 82 A.2d 324 (1951); Pusa Unemployment Compensation Case, 178 Pa. Super. 348, 115 A.2d 791 (1955).
Decision affirmed.