OKUM v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.

No. 1688 C.D. 1982.

77 Pa.Commw. 386 (1983)

Sandra M. Okum, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph K. Pierce, Tive, Hetrick & Pierce, for petitioner.

Charles Hasson, Associate Counsel, with him James K. Bradley, Associate Counsel, and Richard L. Cole, Jr., Chief Counsel, for respondent.

Argued September 12, 1983, before Judges ROGERS, WILLIAMS, JR. and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, October 4, 1983:

In this unemployment compensation appeal, the referee and the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denied benefits on the ground that discharge of the claimant was warranted by her willful misconduct consisting of an insubordinate remark to her superior. The claimant, Sandra Okum, seeks a remand for a further hearing.

The key question is whether or not the compensation authorities erred as a matter of law in excluding...

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