Professional Staff Management, Inc. v. Department of Employment Security

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

Petitioner Professional Staff Management, Inc. (PSM), an employee leasing company, challenges five separate decisions of the Industrial Commission’s Board of Review ruling that unemployment benefits paid to five former PSM employees would be charged against PSM’s benefit account because the employees did not voluntarily terminate their employment with PSM. We reverse.

THE “CHARGE-BACK” SYSTEM

This case involves the “charge-back” feature of Utah’s unemployment compensation program. As explained by counsel for the Board of Review during oral argument, the concept underlying…