Kautz v. Employment Division

Petitioner, a school district employe, seeks review of the Employment Appeals Board’s (EAB) denial of her claim for unemployment benefits during a regularly scheduled holiday recess. We reverse.

Petitioner worked for the Medford school district as a full-time teacher’s aide for approximately eight years until she and 35 others were laid off on October 18,1985, as a result of budget cuts. After the layoff, the school district notified the aides that it would give them temporary clerical work if such work should become available. Petitioner expressed a willingness to perform any job that was…