Crawford v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

The petitioner, Kenneth Crawford, was denied unemployment compensation benefits on the ground that he had been discharged for willful misconduct1 in disobeying the employer’s rules regarding reporting *594absences. He argues that be bad good canse for not reporting off directly to bis employer on three consecutive days, because he bad reported bis absence to the employer’s workmen’s compensation insurance representative. The Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) held that bis reliance on the employer’s insurance representative to notify the employer of bis…