RENDA v. UNEMPLOYMENT COMP. BD. OF REVIEW


837 A.2d 685 (2003)

Edward James RENDA, Petitioner v. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BOARD OF REVIEW, Respondent. James Mazeitis, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. M. Pearl Smith, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Ann Marie Silinskie, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Donna U. Roscoe, Linda A. Youngbauer, Barbara R. Massy, Rose C. Slater, Eileen Heinack, Nancy A. Morgan, Yvonne Van Fleet, Barbara G. Pees, Robert Van Fleet, Harry E. Moore, Kenneth W. Auman, Jerry L. Weaver, Suzanne J. Cover, James B. Strong, Allen D. Petras, Judith B. Seanor, Mary E. Strong, Margaret A. Glass, Frances M. Hill, Betty Lou Lambie, Lois M. Kukich, Sandra E. Clougherty, Judith F. Massari, Henry A. Sommovilla, Jr., Albert R. Beveridge, Christine M. Bruno, William L. Tansmore, Benjamin J. Vignoli, Maureen M. Davis, Dianne K. Madden and James A. Lazur, Petitioners, v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Sheila Franks, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Carol Jane Jolley, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Susan Heidenreich, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Jewel Johnstone, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Marion Kane, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Mary Agnes Kane, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Mary Ann Owens, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Mary Oresick, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Darlene E. Patterson, Clifford Zigler, and Gary Smith, Petitioners v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Phyllis M. Fields, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Adrianne R. Frollini, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Marilyn J. Fleischman, Jacqueline M. Prescott, Karen E. Ogilvie, Teresa Estok, Elizabeth G. Johnston, Denise M. Ninehouser, Joann Thomas, Sharon Ganaway, Sherri Shamonsky, Kathleen Brown, Marilyn G. Pielin, Deborah A. Marnik, Donna Darlene Still, Bernadette Calabro, Petitioners v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent. Richard W. Sibley, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent (Two Cases).

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. O'Connell, Jr., Greensburg, Girard J. Mecadon, Pittston and David F. Weiner, Pittsburgh, for petitioners.

Maribeth Wilt-Seibert, Harrisburg, for respondent.

BEFORE: COLINS, President Judge, and McGINLEY, Judge, SMITH-RIBNER, Judge, PELLEGRINI, Judge, FRIEDMAN, Judge, LEADBETTER, Judge, and SIMPSON, Judge.


OPINION BY Judge SIMPSON.

In these consolidated appeals, sixty-three similarly situated Claimants question whether the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) erred in determining they were ineligible for benefits under Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law1 (Law) (voluntary leave without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature). Because we agree Claimants' beliefs concerning future layoffs were speculative...

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