First Virginia Banks, Inc. v. McNeil

Opinion

BARROW, J.

This is an appeal from the Industrial Commission in which the employer contends that the commission erred in determining the employee’s average weekly wage by not excluding from the computation wages earned by the employee while doing domestic housecleaning. We conclude that earnings used in calculating an employee’s “average weekly wages” include earnings from non-covered employment; thus, we affirm.

The employee, in addition to working twenty hours a week in a cleaning crew for the employer, did housecleaning for individual homeowners. She worked four hours per day for…