Geremia v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act

The decisive question presented in these cases is whether holiday pay, so-called, is to be considered earned remuneration in determining whether an employee is partially unemployed under the provisions of § 31-229 of the General Statutes, Revision of 1958 (Rev. 1949, § 7502), and so entitled to receive partial unemployment benefits. The pertinent portion of the statute reads: “An eligible individual who is partially unemployed throughout a week . . . shall be paid with respect to such week an amount equal to the excess of his benefit rate for total unemployment over the total remuneration of…