Foster v. State

The questions presented by this case are (1) whether the sale, under economic pressures, of a business employing its own shareholders disqualifies the then unemployed shareholders from receiving unemployment compensation; (2) whether a failure to strictly adhere to the weekly filing requirement pending an appeal from the appeal tribunal bars compensation; and (3) whether the repeal of RSA 282:1-H(4) (d) (Supp. 1972) operates to exclude from annual earnings wages earned by self-employed persons prior to the effective date of the repeal. We hold that the sale of the business was with “good…