Court Opinion

ID: 9698416
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:49:52.60077+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:40.826707
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ROBERTS, Justice,
dissenting.
Unlike the majority, I am not satisfied that on this record appellant may both refuse accrued leave pay and claim “unemployed” status under section 401 of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. § 801. The Unemployment Compensation Law defines “unemployed” as:
“An individual shall be deemed unemployed (I) with respect to any week (i) during which he performs no services for which remuneration is paid or payable to him and (ii) with respect to which no remuneration is paid or payable to him . . . .”
§ 4(u), 43 P.S. § 753(u). The Commonwealth Court and the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review correctly concluded that accrued leave pay was “payable” to appellant and therefore appellant was not “unemployed” under the statutory definition. Accordingly, I would affirm the order of the Commonwealth Court affirming the order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying appellant benefits.