Lane v. Employment Department

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Employment Appeals Board (the board). In that order, the board concluded that claimant’s former employer was a “base year employer” and, as a consequence, reduced claimant’s unemployment benefits because he was receiving retirement payments from a plan to which that employer had contributed. We review for substantial evidence and errors of law, ORS 657.282; ORS 183.482(8), and affirm.

We take the operative, undisputed facts from the board’s order as supplemented by the record. Claimant was employed by the state’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs…