Court Opinion

ID: 9758927
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 23:56:16.840053+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:02:40.812011
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NIGRO, Justice,
dissenting.
I would affirm the Commonwealth Court’s decision based upon Old Forge Bank v. Unemployment Compensation Bd. of Review, 666 A.2d 761 (Pa.Cmwlth.1995). I join in Mr. Justice Gappy’s dissenting opinion with the exception of his statements that a necessitous and compelling reason to voluntarily leave employment requires “the most drastic circumstances.” To the contrary, a necessitous and compelling reason to leave “results from circumstances which produce pressure to terminate employment that is both real and substantial, and which would compel a reasonable person under the circumstances to act in the same manner.” Taylor v. Unemployment Compensation Bd. of Review, 474 Pa. 351, 358-59, 378 A.2d 829, 832-33 (1977); Old Forge, 666 A.2d at 764.