G & B Packing v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

G & B Packing (G & B) and JFC Temps, Inc. (JFC)1 appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s2 decision to award total disability benefits to Alonzo Lindsay (Claimant). G & B also appeals from that part of the Board’s order reversing the referee’s decision to hold JFC responsible for paying Claimant’s benefits. The Board concluded that G & B, rather than JFC, was Claimant’s employer and, thus, bore that responsibility.

JFC hired Claimant and provided him with job assignments, including a long-term as*1356signment with G & B as a…