Case Title: Hill v. DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SEC.

Citation: 449 A.2d 969

Docket Number: 323-81

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1982-07-15T00:00:00Z

Document:
449 A.2d 969 (1982) Delbert HILL v. DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. No. 323-81. Supreme Court of Vermont. July 15, 1982. Delbert R. Hill, pro se. Sargent & White, Morrisville, for defendant-appellee Town of Stowe. Before BARNEY, C. J., and BILLINGS, HILL, UNDERWOOD and PECK, JJ. PER CURIAM. The claimant resigned from the Town of Stowe police force on January 30, 1981. He appeals a decision of the Vermont Employment Security Board which disqualified him from unemployment compensation benefits on the ground that he "left the employ of his last employing unit voluntarily without good cause attributable to such employing unit." 21 V.S.A. § 1344(a)(2)(A). The claimant argues that harassment by the police chief made his work environment intolerable, prompting him to leave, and constituting good cause for this voluntary leaving. To support his theory of harassment, he points to a series of encounters he had with the police chief. Dwelling on the peculiar facts of each incident would serve no useful purpose. Suffice it to say that in each instance the claimant offered one version and the employer another. The Employment Security Board examined each incident, and in its findings characterized them in a manner favorable to the employer, concluding that they did not, either singly or in combination, constitute just cause for the appellant to quit. The language of former Justice Larrow in another case is appropriate here: Kasnowski v. Department of Employment Security, 137 Vt. 380, 381, 406 A.2d 388, 389 (1979) (citation omitted). Affirmed.