Caterpillar, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

The majority holds that Claimants’ (the Intervenors) actions did not constitute willful misconduct and that Claimants are therefore entitled to unemployment compensation benefits because their violation of a work rule prohibiting employees from wearing T-shirts attacking or insulting any individual working for appellant, Caterpillar, Inc., did not constitute willful misconduct since the T-shirts which resulted in Claimants’ suspensions did not personally attack Caterpillar’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and the rule unfairly restrained Claimants’ ability to support a union position.…