Pfenning v. Department of Employment & Training

This appeal from a decision of the Vermont Employment Security Board (Board) comes here a second time, following our partial reversal and remand in Pfenning v. Department of Employment & Training, 147 Vt. 533, 522 A.2d 743 (1986) (“Pfenning I”). We now affirm.

The facts are related in part in Pfenning I, which like the present case concerned claimants’ eligibility for benefits during a lockout by their employer from November 4, 1983 to January 15, 1984. In that decision, we rejected claimants’ argument that a lockout was not a “labor dispute” within the meaning of 21 V.S.A. § 1344, the…