Houser v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which affirmed a referees decision denying the claimant unemployment compensation benefits for willful misconduct under Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1

Claimant, Thomas J. Houser, was last employed as an associate professor and director of computer services at Millersville State College. In 1978, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting through Millersville and Kutztown State Colleges, entered into an agreement with the Univac Division of the Sperry…