Zimmerman v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Sandra Zimmerman (Claimant) petitions for review of an adjudication of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) that denied Claimant unemployment benefits. In doing so, the Board affirmed the Referee’s determination that Claimant’s failure to volunteer that she had signed a non-compete agreement with a previous employer was willful misconduct and, thus, rendered her ineligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits.1 We reverse the Board.

*1076In 1998, Claimant began employment at Advanced Health Care in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she worked as a…