· 7/7/2003
Porco v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
Citations
- 828 A.2d 426
- 2003 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 464
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that “abusive conduct and unjust accusations represent adequate justification to terminate one’s employment and that the claimant need not be subjected to such conduct or language indefinitely”
- explaining that a claimant must establish that he first “exhausted all alternatives in order to preserve the employment relationship” in order to demonstrate necessitous and compelling cause justifying a voluntary quit
- opining, in the context of workplace harassment, that employer must have opportunity to remedy issues complained of before claimant deemed to have taken all necessary and reasonable steps to preserve his employment
- sales manager verbally abused and humiliated claimant at least once a week
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Judges: Leavitt, Mirarchi, Smith, Smith-Ribner
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