Thompson v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

The narrow issue presented in this appeal by Howard Thompson from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) is whether his repeated absence from work, in the face of numerous warnings and reprimands by his employer, constitutes 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).

Thompson, who had an extensive and well-documented history of absences and tardiness for which he had received several written warnings and…