0046 4912 41
0046 4912 41 (Jan. 28, 2021) – Held the claimant was ineligible for benefits pursuant to G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e)(1), because she resigned without showing that planned changes to her job rendered it unsuitable. While the claimant was given additional duties, she had the requisite license and experience to perform these duties. At the time she quit, she also did not know whether her schedule or pay would change.
0028 7625 54
0028 7625 54 (Aug. 30, 2019) – A claimant, who was assigned her supervisor’s job duties after the supervisor left the company, had good cause to quit her job and is eligible for benefits under G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e)(1), because the claimant was uncomfortable doing both her own and the supervisor’s duties, she was not offered any pay increase, there was no indication that the change was temporary, and the employer did not offer a reasonable solution to the issue.
0020 6366 36
0020 6366 36 (Feb. 27, 2019) – Reneging on a promise for a second week of paid vacation was not good cause attributable to the employer to resign because it did not amount to a substantial decline in wages. Claimant’s efforts to speak with the owner after he quit to try to work through the vacation issue were after-the-fact efforts to be rehired. Efforts to preserve employment must be made before the employment relationship is severed.
0022 5079 11
0022 5079 11 (Apr. 24, 2018) – Claimant resigned because the involuntary transfer of his junior manager meant he could not take a planned vacation, he believed he would be forced to work even more hours than the usual 45 plus-hour week, and he thought the employer would reduce his pay at the end of the year when he could not meet new production goals. Losing a planned vacation is not good cause attributable to the employer under G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e)(1). Claimant did not stay in the job long enough to show that the staffing transfer actually had this detrimental effect on his hours, or that the employer would actually reduce his pay at the end of the year. [Note: the District Court affirmed the Board of Review’s decision.]
0018 2363 62
0018 2363 62 (Oct. 28, 2016) – When claimant returned from an extended workers’ compensation leave, the employer only had work available on the evening shift. Because this conflicted with her law school classes, the claimant chose to resign rather than forfeit $14,000 in tuition. This was a financial decision and not good cause attributable to the employer to quit. Financial loss and stress do not constitute urgent, compelling, and necessitous circumstances.
0017 7900 96
0017 7900 96 (Oct. 19, 2016) – Claimant had good cause attributable to the employer to quit, because the on-call job given to him after returning from a workers’ compensation leave did not provide any hours for several weeks. The position was unsuitable.
0017 2866 38
0017 2866 38 (July 14, 2016) – Board declined to disqualify a claimant, who was hired to be an activities director at the employer’s rest home, but was transferred to being an aide after the employer decided that she could not do the director position. Claimant had good cause to resign because the new position was unsuitable. Attempts to change the essential elements of the job would have been futile.
0002 2744 49
0002 2744 49 (July 31, 2014) – Claimant who resigned rather than sign an over-broad non-compete agreement was eligible for benefits under § 25(e)(1), because the detrimental change to his terms and conditions of employment rendered his job unsuitable.