The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court reversed an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review that denied the claimant’s request for unemployment compensation. After two of his three part-time university employers terminated his employment, the claimant sought unemployment. In calculating the unemployment compensation he was entitled to, the claimant argued that only his wages from the university that retained him should be excluded in determining his eligibility for benefits. The Board concluded, however, that because the claimant received a reasonable assurance of employment from one of his three employers, all school wages were precluded from being used for financial eligibility for unemployment benefits. In other words, he was not entitled to any unemployment compensation. The Commonwealth Court ruled that 43 P.S. ยง802.1(1) was intended to preclude benefits in the case of the anticipated and temporary loss of wages during school breaks commonly incurred by a professional employed by educational institutions, but not for a permanent and unanticipated loss of wages. Here, the Court held that the latter applied, and thus the claimant was entitled to unemployment compensation.
