Henry v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this unemployment compensation appeal, the claimant1 seeks reversal of the Board’s2 decision affirming the referee’s conclusion that claimant was ineligible by virtue of Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law,3 the willful misconduct disqualification.4

Employer’s personnel manager discharged the claimant because, in the context of a telephone dispute over claimant’s work attendance record, claimant had challenged the manager’s veracity by telling him he was “full of shit,” and had protested the manager’s request for a doctor’s certificate of illness by…