UI: Suitable Work

Part-time behavioral therapist assigned to work with children in and around Boston should not have been disqualified for turning down assignments that required her to drive 1-2 hours during rush hour for 2 hours of work.  Such assignments were unsuitable.

Advocate: Margaretta Kroeger, MetroWest Legal The client had worked in IT for a tech company until June 2016, when he was laid off.  He was approved for UI, but before he started receiving benefits he accepted a new full-time job working in IT at a bank.  However, he only worked at…

Shipping facility worker became pregnant with a 10 lb. lifting restriction and informed the employer.  When the only accommodation was an offer to work part-time, which would have cut the claimant’s wages in half, the claimant resigned.  Held the claimant had an urgent, compelling, and necessitous…

Claimant had good cause to restrict her hours of work due to childcare responsibilities, and accepted all suitable work consistent with these responsibilities.

Reversing Hearing Officer, Board allowed UI to claimant who quit job after employer unilaterally reduced his hours.

Issue on appeal was whether the claimant resigned from her job because the wages, hours and working conditions rendered the job unsuitable.  The BOR found that because the employee's shift and rate of pay were not what she was originally promised during her job interview. the job was…

Finding that the employer's changes to the claimant's remuneration, hours, and working conditions made the job unsuitable and that the claimant had no duty to try to preserve unsuitable employment. Advocate: Greater Boston Legal Services

The attached Board of Review decision addresses the rights of a worker of a temporary agency to deny a new offer by a temporary agency if the work is unsuitable. The claimant accepted a temporary position from Professional Staffing Group and worked as a "temp" at a placement for approximately 2…

Finding that a temporary employee, whose first assignment for a staffing agency lasted one and a half years at $10/hour, had good cause for declining a six-week placement at $9/hour since the claimant had a work history of positions with long tenures and higher rates of compensation. Advocate:…

The issues on appeal are whether the claimant's part-time work for this employer is suitable employment, and whether he is in partial unemployment.  Claimant had been an experienced salesperson with a masters degree in business and marketing who was now performing part-time work as a…