Cadden Unemployment Compensation Case

Dissenting Opinion by

Flood, J.:

In this case the connection of the applicant’s “wilful misconduct” with his work is more tenuous than in any in which this Court has heretofore approved the denial of compensation on this ground. See the cases collected in 33 P. L. E. 510-519 (Social Welfare §§64-68, inc.). The statute provides that the misconduct which causes the discharge of the applicant, to be disqualifying, must be “connected with his work”. Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, §402(e), as amended August 24, 1953, P. L. 1397, §4, 43 PS §802(e). The speeding charge which is the basis…