In re the Claim of Clum

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 1, 1977, which held that claimant lost his employment through his own misconduct. The claimant was a truck driver and it is undisputed that after he parked his truck at a loading dock and left it running in neutral gear, the truck rolled and struck another vehicle. His employer on the following day discharged him from employment as follows: "For this act of negligence you are discharged without recourse.” The employer’s representative testified that the wheels of the truck should have been blocked, but there was no…