Gabriele v. Boeing Co.

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

TMs is an appeal from a final order of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission dismissing a complaint by John P. Gabriele, the appellant here, that he had been discharged from employment because of his Italian ancestry.

Section 5(a) of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act of October 27, 1955, P. L. 744, as amended, 43 P.S. 955, declares it to be an unlawful discriminatory act to discharge from employment an employee because of his ancestry “. . . if the individual is the best able and most competent to perform the services required”.

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