Weiner v. Director of Division of Employment Security

Unemployment compensation began in Massachusetts with St. 1935, c. 479, inserting by § 5 a new chapter in the General Laws, called c. 151A. A substitute for that new chapter was provided by St. 1937, c. 421, § 1. That substitute chapter was itself repealed by St. 1941, c. 685, § 1, and a new c. 151A was provided. This with later amendments constitutes the present law.

Contributions are required to be paid into a fund, to be used for the benefit of employees who lose their employment. In Howes Brothers Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Commission, 296 Mass. 275, the statute was upheld as an…