Guy Gannett Publishing Co. v. Maine Employment Security Commission

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• holding that employee who resigned left voluntarily where employer accepted resignation, told employee not to come to work anymore, and paid employee through end of notice period
• voluntary resignation; no entitlement to benefits; immaterial that no replacement hired prior to attempt to withdraw resignation
• a resignation could not be withdrawn after notice but before the effective date
• “A resignation, when voluntary, is essentially an unconditional event the legal significance and finality of which cannot be altered by the measure of time between the employee’s notice and the actual date of departure from the job.”

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