Kirk v. Department of Industrial Relations

HOLMES, Judge.

This is an unemployment compensation case.

The employee’s claim for unemployment compensation was denied by the Department of Industrial Relations (Department). The denial notice was apparently mailed to the employee on April 15,1987. His subsequent appeal before the Department was dismissed as being untimely filed. When the employee appealed to the circuit court, the Department moved for summary judgment on the ground that there was no genuine issue as to the untimeliness of his filing of an appeal with the Department. The trial court granted that motion for summary judgment and…