Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Callahan

HOLLANDER, Judge.

The common issue presented here concerns the determination of when appellees, who are 33 former Westinghouse Electric Corporation employees, became unemployed for purposes of entitlement to unemployment compensation benefits.1 The Hearing Examiner of the Department of Economic and Employment Development (“DEED”) concluded that all 33 *28appellees were qualified to collect unemployment insurance benefits as of the time that they were prospectively notified by Westinghouse, the appellant here, that their jobs would be abolished. Thereafter, pursuant to Md.Code Ann., Labor and…