Dubose Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

The claimant in this unemployment compensation case was denied compensation by the bureau, referee and board, on the ground that her unemployment was due to her discharge from work for willful misconduct. See §402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, as last amended by the Act of August 24, 1953, P. L. 1397, §4, 43 P.S. §802(e).

When told by her employer that she was expected to work on a Saturday, the claimant said that she wanted to do religious work with a traveling minister that day. She was given permission to stay away from work to do her religious work,…