Ellis v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

Stella Ellis (Claimant) appeals to this Court from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which denied unemployment compensation benefits to Claimant. The Board found that Claimant’s unemployment was due to willful misconduct and that she, therefore, was ineligible to receive benefits under the provisions 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). For the reasons which follow, we reverse.

Claimant was empkned by the Philadelphia State…