Opinion
September 14, 1961.
November 16, 1961.
Unemployment Compensation — Voluntary termination of employment — Refusal to accept transfer at lower wage.
In an unemployment compensation case, in which it appeared that claimant, who had been employed as a mechanical inspector, was offered a janitorial job in another unit of the employer's plant at the hourly rate of $1.68, which was forty-six cents an hour less than his former job, and that claimant refused the transfer and voluntarily terminated his employment because he would not accept the decrease in wages, it was Held that the decision of the unemployment compensation authorities denying benefits should be affirmed.
Before ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).
Appeal, No. 289, Oct. T., 1961, by claimant, from decision of Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. B-63932, in re claim of James J. Martin. Decision affirmed.
James J. Martin, appellant, in propria persona.
Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, with him David Stahl, Attorney General, for Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, appellee.
Argued September 14, 1961.
In this unemployment compensation case the bureau, referee and board denied benefits to the claimant under § 402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 P. S. § 802(b)(1). The claimant had been employed by I.T.E. Circuit Breaker Company for ten years as a mechanical inspector. On August 18, 1960, he was offered a janitorial job in another unit of the employer's plant at the hourly rate of $1.68, which was forty-six cents an hour less than his former job. He refused the transfer and voluntarily terminated his employment because he would not accept the decrease in wages. This case is ruled by Pusa Unemployment Compensation Case, 178 Pa. Super. 348, 115 A.2d 791; Buletza Unemployment Compensation Case, 174 Pa. Super. 248, 101 A.2d 447.
Decision affirmed.