Pennsylvania court rejects lesbian partner’s unemployment benefits claim
Leonard Link has this post discussing a Commonwealth Court ruling. It begins:
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled 6-1 on March 17 against Joan Procito’s bid for unemployment benefits to compensate for leaving her job to follow her same-sex domestic partner to Florida . . . Procito v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 2008 WL 696393.
The Review Board upheld a ruling by an Unemployment Compensation Referee after a hearing in which Procito and her partner participated from Florida by telephone. Procito testified that her partner had quit her job because job-related stress was having an adverse effect on her health. The partner had several sons, one of whom, a person with learning disabilities, was about to begin college in Florida, and she decided she should move to Florida with her sons to provide family emotional support for her new collegian. Procito could not afford to maintain two households, and quit her own job to move to Florida with her partner.
Were Procito and her partner married, this scenario could make Procito eligible for unemployment benefits. But the Referee determined that domestic partners do not qualify for the “following the spouse” doctrine that the Pennsylvania courts have developed for such situations . . .
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That is really a problem. If this problem can be solved, more lesbian can live a happy life. “Getting support from government for unimployment is also support of life for us LGBT. We need to enjoy the same benifit as others” it is what we LGBT on http://www.bimingle.com all expected. Hopefully, there will be improvement about it.
Had it been under any other circumstances my might not agree with the ruling, but just to follow her partern to florida, suffer, and find another job.
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