Bucher v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Barbieri,

This is an appeal from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s denial of unemployment compensation benefits to Frank Bucher (Claimant) on the ground that he had been discharged from employment for willful misconduct, and was thus disqualified from receiving benefits by the provisions of Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(e). We reverse.

Claimant was last employed as a plant operator at the Milton Borough Sewage Plant, a…