DEVLIN v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.

No. 2645 C.D. 1981.

71 Pa.Commw. 417 (1983)

Garth Devlin, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael McGinley, for petitioner.

Joel G. Cavicchia, Associate Counsel, with him Richard L. Cole, Jr., Chief Counsel, for respondent.

Submitted on briefs November 15, 1982, to President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges MacPHAIL and DOYLE, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, January 27, 1983:

Garth Devlin (Claimant) appeals here from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which affirmed a referee's decision denying him benefits and held that Claimant's intentional refusal to follow his Employer's1 safety rule, as to the proper method of notching and felling trees near high voltage power lines, constituted willful misconduct under the provisions of Section...

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