Carpenter Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

These are appeals by Rupert B. Carpenter and Edward Yesolich, Jr., and twenty-four other claimants from the decisions of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review that determined certain payments due and payable to them by the employer at the termination of their employment were deductible from their unemployment benefit entitlement.

All of the claimants were employed by the Yulcan-Kidd Division of the H. K. Porter Company, Inc. and the money at issue was paid to each claimant under a collective bargaining contract between the employer and the United Steelworkers of…