· 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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