Robichaud's Case

The only question relates to the amount of compensation. The employee, once a regular worker, at the time of the injury was employed on a “stagger” system, by which he worked from Thursday morning until Wednesday night for a week’s pay of $24, and then did no work and earned no more pay until Thursday morning of the following week. The result was that he earned a week’s pay of $24 every two weeks, and thus averaged $12 a week. He contends that his average weekly wages were $24. The board found that they were $12, and that consequently the amount of compensation for total disability was $9 a…