Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. v. Doyal

REDMANN, Judge.

The administrator of the state Department of Employment Security appeals from a judgment declaring an employee ineligible for unemployment benefits. The principal question is whether the employee is disqualified because of leaving work without work-connected cause.

The employee is a seaman, who sails under a union contract. The contract provides that a seaman must take all accrued vacation leave from his vessel at the end of the voyage during which he accumulates 210 workdays without having taken leave. The job of a seaman who “refuses to take vacation leave . . . and makes a…