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VL 200.00 Abandonment

Click on the case numbers below to access decisions that address whether a claimant who failed to show up for work is entitled to benefits.

352-MV4K-8P6K

352-MV4K-8P6K (Dec. 23, 2025) – Although the passing of her father and her mother’s illness may have created urgent, compelling, and necessitous reasons to be a no-call, no show the first time, the claimant did not demonstrate that she made reasonable efforts to preserve her employment when she failed to call in a second time, since she had just done so a week earlier. Held the claimant is disqualified under G.L. c. 151A, § 25(e)(1).

0031 3310 49

0031 3310 49 (Oct. 30, 2019) – After initially notifying the employer of his father’s death and the possibility that he was going to travel outside the country, the claimant did not confirm that he would be absent from work. Since he was a no-call, no-show for four consecutive shifts, his separation constitutes job abandonment and he is disqualified under § 25(e)(1).

0012 1407 14

0012 1407 14 (Sept. 15, 2014) – A landscape driver, who had routinely been laid off for the winter and re-hired in the spring, was deemed to have voluntarily quit when he was recalled to work and failed to return.

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