W. C. McQuaide, Inc. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is an appeal by employer W. C. McQuaide, Inc. from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review granting unemployment benefits to claimant Joseph F. LaPorta. That order reversed a decision by the Referee that the claimant was ineligible for benefits because he had engaged in “willful misconduct” within the meaning of Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law. Act of December 5,1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802(e).

The claimant worked as- a loader for McQuaide, Inc. until July 5, 1977, when the employer…