Salem-Keizer School District 24J v. Employment Department

Salem-Keizer School District #24J (district) seeks review of Employment Appeals Board’s (EAB) final order granting unemployment benefits during the district’s winter recess to claimant Wunsch, a substitute teacher. We reverse.

The facts are not in dispute. Claimant worked more than 11 years as a teacher at Salem Academy, a private school, until January 29, 1993. On February 1, 1993, he filed for unemployment benefits and eventually began collecting a weekly benefit of $271. Later that year, district placed claimant on its substitute teacher list, and he earned $434.40 in that position the week…