Roberts v. Industrial Commission

Roberts was a welder working for Chain Belt Company. His labor grade was number five. On September 28, 1954, there was a lack of welding work and the company offered him a transfer to the job of stock selector in labor grade eight. Roberts’ pay as a welder varied from $71 to $95 per week, piecework. The stock-selector job had no piecework and the pay would be $64 per week. Roberts refused the offer of the new job and demanded that he be placed on layoff under the terms of a contract between the employer and the union, which read as follows:

“Employees subject to layoff are expected to accept…