Wirfel v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

In this unemployment compensation case, every compensation authority denied benefits to Regis A. Wirfel and his son, William, in separate decisions because their discharges were based on willful misconduct, Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law.1

We reverse the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review in both cases.

In the interest of judicial economy and because both claims arise from factually similar circumstances, they were consolidated for argument.

*349First, as to Regis’s appeal: Regis, after 30% years’ service, was dismissed on September 14, 1976.…