Brown v. Labor & Industrial Relations Commission

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

These appeals present the same question of statutory meaning which, in each case, determines whether the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to deny unemployment compensation benefits was contrary to the Employment Security Law [Chapter 288, RSMo 1969]. The appeals were argued contemporaneously, although separately, and are consolidated for opinion.

The facts are that each claimant, Brown and Osborne, held a part-time employment concurrently with a full-time employment, that each voluntarily left the part-time employment and was thereafter…