Anderson v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this unemployment compensation appeal, the claimant1 questions the board’s2 affirmance of a referee’s decision which denied compensation on the basis of the willful misconduct provision of the Unemployment Compensation Law.3

On March 19,1979 the employer4 discharged claimant from her duties as a meat wrapper for allegedly shoplifting meat from the employer. On her last day at work, the claimant, during her fifteen-minute break, purchased items from the store, had them bagged and rung up at a cash register, and then took them to her work station in the meat department.…