# Sanchez v. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board

> California Supreme Court · August 23, 1984 · 36 Cal. 3d 575

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9627445

## Case

- **Full name:** ERADONNA SANCHEZ Et Al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE APPEALS BOARD, Defendant and Respondent; TRIBAL AMERICAN CONSULTING CORPORATION, Real Party in Interest and Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 23, 1984
- **Citations:** 36 Cal. 3d 575; 205 Cal. Rptr. 501; 685 P.2d 61; 117 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 3203; 1984 Cal. LEXIS 204
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mosk
- **Judges:** Grodin
- **Cited by:** 25 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

*590 MOSK, J .
I concur, only because the facts of this case are so egregious as to make it evident there was good cause for the claimants to voluntarily terminate their employment.
This case should provide no precedent for other employees who voluntarily resign from continuous employment merely because the environment is not free of conflict, or because associates and superiors are imperious. While one must sympathize with employees who labor in an unhappy or contentious atmosphere, that circumstance alone does not justify voluntary termination and unemployment benefit claims. Nor are such claims proper when an employee resigns merely in anticipation, real or fancied, of possible firing or discipline at some vague time in the future. A foreseeably imminent discharge or unjustified discipline is required. As declared in Zorrero v. Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd. (1975) 47 Cal.App.3d 434, 439 [ 120 Cal.Rptr. 855 ], voluntary termination must “be based on serious and exigent circumstances. ”
With the foregoing caveat, I join my colleagues in finding good cause in this sui generis fact situation.
Lucas, J., concurred.

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