London v. Board of Review of the W. Va. Dept. of Employment Security

Harshbarger, Justice:

Appellants are 86 employees of a Headstart (pre-school education) program operated by the non-profit, federally funded Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc. They are teachers, classroom aides, social workers, drivers and cooks, and have no employment tenure or continuing contracts. The Council terminates its Headstart employees at the end of each school year and then re-hires them the next fall if funds are available.

Appellants’ employment ended in June, 1975 and they applied for unemployment benefits. They were denied *576compensation by a ruling that found them ..…