169 Pa. Super. 269 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1951
In these two cases the employer appeals from awards of compensation. Appellant contends that claimants’ unemployment was “due to voluntarily leaving work without good cause,” and that under §402 (b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law as amended, 43 PS §802, they thus became ineligible for relief.
The claimants, who were the principal employes in appellant’s payroll department, left their employment on October 10, 1949, after a dispute with their supervisor. The supervisor was heard to complain unjustly that her health had been affected through her having had to perform the work of the payroll employes, and
The findings of fact were supported by sufficient and competent testimony, and are therefore binding upon this Court.
To constitute good cause, the employes’ leaving must be for “adequate excuses that will bear the test of reason, just grounds for action, and always the element of good faith.”: Sturdevant Unemployment Case, 158 Pa. Superior Ct. 548, 45 A. 2d 898. See also Kaylock Unemployment Compensation Case, 165 Pa. Superior Ct. 376, 67 A. 2d 801. The circumstances here meet these tests. These claimants were not required to continue being subjected to unjust accusations, abusive conduct and profane language. That they acted in good faith' is borne out by their áttempt to resume work four days after leaving, on the strength of the company’s promise to settle the matter. There is nothing in the evidence which can be said to point to their
Decisions affirmed.