Morysville Body Works, Inc. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is an appeal by Morysville Body Works, Inc. (employer) from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s decision to grant benefits to claimant Philip D. Eddinger. The employer asserts that Eddinger was discharged for conduct constituting “willful miscon*8duct” under Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law,1 and was ineligible for benefits by force of that Section.

On September 22, 1978 the employer discharged Eddinger for violating a shop rule against punching another employee’s time card. At the hearing…