Court Opinion

ID: 5757045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:08:09.487692+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:41:26.755653
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.

Appeal by the employer from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board that claimant did not voluntarily leave his employment without good cause, as against the contention that he provoked his discharge by declining, after a surgical operation, to report to his place of employment for a medical examination there, rather than at his home, to determine whether he was able to return to work. The question of good cause is a factual one and well within the area of decision committed to the board. In this case the board found, upon evidence which it was entitled to accept, and which we find substantial, that: “ In view of the advice given to claimant by his physician that he could not return to work before July, and the fact that claimant had suffered from a rupture of the surgical sutures some weeks before, his reluctance to travel prematurely whether for a physical examination or resumption of work was not unreasonable. Claimant offered to be examined by the employer’s physician or by a physician authorized by the employer at his own homo, but the employer insisted that claimant travel to the place of employment to be examined there. Claimant reasonably exercised his judgment in not traveling to his place of employment to be examined by the employer’s physician before July 6. When, thereafter he was told that he was fit to resume working, claimant offered to do so the very next day.” Decision affirmed, with costs to respondent claimant.
Gibson, P. J., Herlihy, Reynolds, Aulisi and Hamm, J J., concur.