Zimbrick v. Morgan

This is an appeal under OBS 657.285 from reversal in circuit court of action by the Appeals Board of the Department of Employment.

Plaintiffs, who prevailed in circuit court, are former employes of defendant Crown Zellerbach Corporation’s Plywood Division in Columbia County, Oregon. The employer closed its operation where plaintiffs were employed, thus terminating their employment in August 1968. Under the pre-existing collective bargaining agreement, the employer negotiated with the employes an agreement to pay terminated employes a lump sum severance pay, based on length of employment, or…