Empire Iron Mining Partnership v. Asmund

The circuit court did not err in affirming the decisions of the board of review' that the claimants were requalified to receive unemployment benefits because their labor dispute disqualifications were terminated under §29(8) of the Michigan Employment Security Act (mesa), MCL 421.29(8); MSA 17.531(8). I would affirm.

These cases involve the so-called "make work” circumstances of thirteen claimants who worked for individual employers for at least two weeks at wages at least as high as their weekly benefit rates for the employment involved in the labor dispute.1 The majority opinion engages in…