Baskin v. Community Towel Service

REED, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case we are asked to review the current applicability of the “going and coming” rule to the claim of an employee who was employed on a fixed-time basis at a fixed place of work and who was injured while returning from lunch to the premises of his employer.

*457Appellants, Baskin and Foster, were employees of Community Towel Service. They were hourly-rate production workers who checked in and out on a time clock. They were not paid while on their lunch period. On the day they were injured they checked out and left the employer’s premises to go to lunch.…