Kosmos Cement Co., Inc. v. Haney

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals in an unemployment compensation matter which had reversed the judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court which in turn had reversed the decision of the unemployment commission.

The principal legal issue is whether employees who have been laid off for lack of work prior to the beginning of a strike and who are then recalled to work which, except for the strike, would not have been available, are required to return to work or lose their unemployment benefits.

Haney and the other appellees are union members who were laid off…