Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission v. Goode

HOGGE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Boyle Circuit Court which reversed a decision of the Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission denying unemployment insurance benefits to the appellees. The appellees were employees of the Whirlpool Corporation at its Danville, Kentucky plant. They did not have sufficient time with the corporation to qualify for vacation pay when the corporation temporarily closed its plant from July 28,1979, through August 8, 1979. They applied for unemployment insurance benefits for the period of the shutdown.

The Commission affirmed a referee’s decision…