Scott v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this appeal from a denial of benefits by the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review and a referee, the claimant, Alvin Scott, contends that Gilbert Associates, Inc., the employer, did not establish-the willful misconduct disqualification, because the specific prerequisites for his entry-level job of expediter did not include the possession of a college degree— the subject of the false claim which the claimant had made on his employment application.

As a matter of undisputed fact, the claimant falsified his employment application when he claimed to have been…