Navickas v. Unemployment Compensation Review Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

In this unemployment compensation matter, the Commonwealth Court determined that nurses “are held to a higher standard of care” than most other employees and, therefore, a nurse’s inadvertent or non-intentional mistake constitutes *300“willful misconduct” under § 402 of the Unemployment Compensation Law, which renders the nurse ineligible for unemployment compensation. See 43 P.S. § 802(e). This Court granted review to examine the propriety of the Commonwealth Court’s fashioning of a “higher standard” for certain workers in construing the Unemployment…