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· 4/11/1991

Truitt v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW

Citations

  • 589 A.2d 208
  • 527 Pa. 138
  • 1991 Pa. LEXIS 87

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  • holding that claimant had necessitous and compelling reason to quit when she was unable to locate suitable child care after regular babysitter quit and she was unable to rearrange work schedule
  • holding that the claimant had a necessitous and compelling reason to quit due to her inability to locate suitable childcare after her regular babysitter was incapacitated
  • holding that, after a reasonable person exhausts alternatives for available childcare on short notice, 6 “[t]here is nothing more that we can or should ask of an employee before that employee terminates his or her employment.”
  • noting that the claimant had not 10 accrued any sick leave or vacation time to allow her to take a leave of absence to deal with her child care problem
  • single parent quit job for good cause when she lost babysitter and was unable to obtain child care after 6:00 p.m.
  • claimant had a necessitous and compelling reason to quit due to her inability to locate suitable child care after her regular babysitter was incapacitated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Nix, Flaherty, Larsen, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Cappy, Zappalá

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