Green v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this unemployment compensation case, the claimant1 questions a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review which reversed the referee’s award and denied benefits on the ground that the claimant’s unemployment was a result of willful misconduct.2

Flinchbaugh Products (employer) discharged claimant in November 1978 for having accumulated more than seven “unauthorized” absences, thus violating the employer’s rule that eight such “unau*233thorized” absences in a twelve-month period would constitute cause for dismissal.

As in W. R. Grace v. Unemployment…