Otto Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion

Per Curiam,

Claimant appeals from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review denying her benefits on the ground that her discharge by the employer was due to willful misconduct under section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS §802(e).

Claimant had been employed by the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a secretary, for more than four and a half years. On September 14, 1956, she was discharged by the office manager because of her refusal to obey her employer’s instructions to assist another employe in the latter’s work.…