ASKEW v. UNEMPL. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW

No. 1980 C.D. 1979.

56 Pa.Commw. 260 (1981)

Plummer Askew, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Freeman, for petitioner.

Steven Marcuse, Assistant Attorney General, with him Richard Wagner, Assistant Attorney General, and Harvey Bartle, III, Acting Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued December 8, 1980, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., CRAIG and PALLADINO, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, January 22, 1981:

In this unemployment compensation appeal, the claimant1 questions the board's2 affirmance of a referee's decision which denied compensation on the basis of the willful misconduct provision of the Unemployment Compensation Law.3

The employer discharged claimant January 12, 1979 for being absent from work on January 9, 1980, without...

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