American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations v. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board

Opinion

CHIN, J.

We granted review to decide a narrow question of first impression: whether an administrative law judge may award interest on a payment of retroactive unemployment insurance benefits. Administrative law judges, acting on behalf of the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (the Board), sit by authority granted under Unemployment Insurance Code section 100 et *1022seq. The code limits these judges to reviewing the action of the Employment Development Department (EDD) in its ministerial determination of unemployment benefit eligibility. (Unemp. Ins. Code, § 1334.) Nowhere does the…