Berkley v. D.C. Transit, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “an employee’s departure is presumed to be involuntary unless the employer fulfills its burden of proving the employee left voluntarily” and that “[sjubstantial policy considerations underlie the presumption of involuntariness.”
• where employer proves that termination was voluntary, employee must prove that she left “for good cause”
• substantial reduction in employee’s hours and employer’s failure to pay wages constituted good cause to leave work
• where employer proves that termination was voluntary, employee must prove that she left “for good cause”
• “Substantial evidence . . . means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).