Lovette v. Reliable Manufacturing Company

Under the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act, compensation for the injury or death of an employee is based on his average weekly wages. These must ordinarily be determined by the employee’s actual earnings in the employment in which he was injured during the fifty-two weeks, or such lesser period as he may have worked, immediately preceding his injury. G.S. 97-2(5); Liles v. Electric Co., 244 N.C. 653, 94 S.E. 2d 790. The purpose of the statute is to base compensation upon the normal income which the employee derived from his employment. To provide for situations in which, because of…