Parson v. Holman Erection Co., Inc.

I respectfully dissent. The majority concludes that the 1983 legislature’s deletion of the last sentence of subdivision 2 of section 176.101 evinces a clear legislative intent to eliminate temporary partial benefits to unemployed claimants. As we noted in Gasper v. Northern Star Company, 422 N.W.2d 727, 730 (Minn.1988), the legislature’s intent with respect to temporary partial benefits is far from obvious. Even as amended, subdivision 2 provides benefits for temporarily partially disabled workers; and nothing in the act specifically limits such benefits to only those partially disabled…