Ritchey v. Iowa Employment Security Commission

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal turns on a finding of fact by the Iowa Employment Security Commission.

To be eligible for unemployment compensation, an unemployed individual must be “earnestly and actively seeking work” and the Employment Security Commission must find that he “has registered for work at and thereafter has continued to report at an employment office in accordance with such regulations as the commission may prescribe.” Code 1973, § 96.4(1) and (3). Under this statute, the commission promulgated and the legislative rules committee approved rule 3.1(1) (a), (b), and (c), requiring…