0067 3510 13
0067 3510 13 (Dec. 23, 2023) – Claimant is eligible for benefits under G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e), where she quit her temporary job with the instant employer’s COVID-19 testing unit in good faith to accept an offer of permanent full-time employment with another employer, but became separated from that job shortly thereafter because she was diagnosed with cancer and her new employer could not hold her job while she underwent treatment.
0071 5767 49
0071 5767 49 (Aug. 29, 2023) – The claimant quit his job to accept a position as an independent contractor. Because independent contractor work is not considered employment under G.L. c. 151A, he did not resign his position to accept new, full-time employment within the meaning of G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e). As the employer did not take any action that negatively impacted the claimant’s earnings and there was insufficient evidence to indicate the claimant’s earnings were financially unsustainable, the claimant also did not meet his burden to show that he separated for good cause attributable to the employer, or for urgent, compelling, and necessitous reasons, and he is ineligible pursuant to G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e)(1).
0025 1670 85
0025 1670 85 (Nov. 16, 2018) – Claimant submitted his resignation with a verbal job offer in hand that was specific as to his position, shift, location, and salary, but which was contingent upon passing a drug screen and background check. Where the new employer rescinded the offer based upon a break in past employment that the claimant had already revealed during the interview, the claimant could not reasonably have anticipated that he would not be hired. Held he left in good faith to accept new permanent, full-time employment and became separated for good cause attributable to the new employing unit pursuant to G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e).
0010 6162 10
0010 6162 10 (Sept. 29, 2014) – Where the claimant resigned to accept full-time employment with a temporary staffing agency, the Board held that the claimant left his former job in good faith to accept new employment on a permanent full-time basis. Although the nature of his assignments were temporary, the claimant’s relationship with the staffing agency was permanent within the meaning of G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e).
0002 1161 65
0002 1161 65 (Nov. 13, 2013) – Where claimant left her employment for another job without a bona fide offer of new full-time permanent employment, and the new job fell through, she was ineligible for benefits. The new employer did not provide a start date or starting salary, did not give her anything in writing offering her a new job, and only had her fill out employment forms which could be used by the new employer if she was to be offered the new job.
BR-108951
BR-108951 (July 29, 2009) – Awarded benefits to claimant who left work voluntarily to accept a full-time "temp-to-perm" position, where the new position had all the characteristics of a permanent job, notwithstanding its label.