Wailuku Sugar Co. v. Agsalud

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PADGETT, J.

This is an appeal from an order by the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit affirming two decisions and orders entered by a referee of the Unemployment Compensation Division, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, State of Hawaii, which determined that the individual appellants were ineligible for trade readjustment allowances under 19 U.S.C. § 2291. We reverse.

The individual appellants were supervisory employees of Wailuku Sugar Company, Limited. Because of the adverse effects of foreign sugar competition in late 1976, Wailuku Sugar Company determined…