Call v. Department of Employment Security

This is a consolidated appeal from two decisions of the Vermont Employment Security Board, in which claimants were disqualified from receipt of unemployment compensation benefits, and were held liable for repayment. We reverse and remand.

Claimants, both skilled carpenters with substantial experience, were offered employment by the owner of Vermont Salvage Co. and Summerville Fence Co. Their employment was to have involved partitioning office space at Vermont Salvage Co., but when they reported for work, they were assigned the job of renovating “a partially gutted old building” at Summerville…