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· 12/21/1988

Curry v. Gatson

Citations

  • 376 S.E.2d 166
  • 180 W. Va. 272
  • 1988 W. Va. LEXIS 212
  • 53 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 40,026

How courts have described this case

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  • employee who quit her job because of sexual and racial harassment by coworkers had good cause attributable to her employer
  • employee who quit her job because of sexual and racial harassment by coworkers had good cause attributable to her employer
  • “if an employee is sexually or racially harassed at the workplace and this discriminatory treatment would cause a reasonably prudent person to resign, such employee is not disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation benefits”
  • Racial harassment provides \good cause\ for the harassed to voluntarily terminate employment for the purposes of W.Va.Code § 21A-6-3(l), so as to make the person harassed eligible for unemployment compensation benefits
  • “if an employee is sexually or racially harassed at the workplace and this discriminatory treatment would cause a reasonably prudent person to resign, such employee is not disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation benefits”

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Judges: Miller

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