Davis v. Gatson

McHUGH, Chief Justice:

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari,1 in which twenty-two employees seek unemploy*145ment compensation benefits for a two-week period in August of 1992 during which their employer shut down its facility. Though the Board of Review of the West Virginia Bureau of Employment Programs had determined that, under W.Va.Code, 21A-1-3 [1991], the employees were entitled to such benefits because the employer failed to give unequivocal notice of the planned shutdown within ninety days thereof, the Circuit Court of Kanawha County reversed, ruling that W.Va.Code, 21A-1-3 [1991]…