Alanis v. Barrett Business Services

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board determining his rate of temporary partial disability compensation (TPD) to be $49.87 per week and refusing to assess a penalty for employer’s failure to pay TPD. Employer cross-petitions, asserting that the Board erred in awarding any TPD benefits. We affirm on the petition and reverse and remand for reconsideration on the cross-petition.

We take our statement of facts from the Board’s findings, which we conclude are supported by substantial evidence. Employer is a temporary service provider and first employed claimant as a…