Stone Forest Industries, Inc. v. Bowler

Employer Stone Forest Industries seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board in which the Board held that claimant is entitled to temporary disability payments 1 for the period beginning when Stone, as part of a plant closure, terminated his modified duty employment and ending when it ceased making payments to him related to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). 29 USC §§ 2101-2109. Stone argues that its WARN payments constitute wages for the purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Law and that claimant, therefore, was not entitled to temporary disability…