Tongel v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

A referee’s decision denying ¡Christine A. Tongel benefits for willful misconduct1 was upheld by the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review. She appeals; we reverse.

Tongel, a dispatcher for Wells Fargo Guard Services at the Allegheny Center Mall in Pittsburgh, was discharged for improper conduct and for allowing an unauthorized person into the ¡security control center after her supervisor reported observing her being given a back rub by, and later embracing, a male police officer while ¡she was on duty. The referee found, inter alia, that (1) the…