Colonial Beef Co. v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Colonial Beef Company (Colonial) appeals from an Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) benefits award to Antoinette Johnson. We reverse.

Johnson had been discharged on January 5, 1979, for habitually violating Colonial’s work rules regarding lavatory use. She was reinstated ten days later after producing a doctor’s certification that she had suffered from a urinary tract infection in 1970 and after asserting that she was currently undergoing treatment. Notwithstanding Colonial’s warning that a reduction of lavatory time was necessary to…