Empire Iron Mining Partnership v. Orhanen

These three cases involve the payment of unemployment benefits to striking employees of appellant mining operations. The employers appeal as of right from a circuit court opinion and order affirming decisions by the Michigan Employment Security Board of Review that these employees were not disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits because they requalified for benefits under § 29(8) of the Michigan Employment Security Act (mesa), MCL 421.29(8); MSA 17.531(8). Each employee had more than one employer during the two-week requalification period. The Michi*132gan Employment Security Commission…