Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this unemployment compensation appeal, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the employer, asks us to reverse a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review granting benefits to Mary Jones, the claimant. After an initial hearing before a referee, pursuant to which the referee denied benefits, the board, because the testimony' recording had been erased, remanded the case for a rehearing to *245create a new transcript, upon which the board alone made the final decision. Although the board might have elected to have the benefit of a referee’s decision on that…