Connolly v. Dir. of the Div. of Unemployment Assistance, 460 Mass. 24 (2011)

The SJC found that a claimant who accepted a Voluntary Separation Package had not been terminated involuntarily even though the employer had announced a reduction in force and it was the employer who was given the "last step" in the termination process and took it by accepting the employee's application for VSP (limiting Morillo to cases in which an employer announces and carries out a layoff, and the "actual identity of an individual employee who was part of an involuntary layoff did not matter").

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