Ford Motor Co. v. New Jersey Department of Labor & Industry

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The issue here is wdiether certain employees of the Ford Motor Company at its Hew Jersey assembly plants in Edgewater and Metuchen are by force of R. S. 43 :21-5 (d) disqualified for unemployment compensation for the period from May 11, 1949, to and including June 7, 1949, when the New Jersey plants were shut down; and this, in turn, depends upon whether the work stoppage resulted from a labor dispute at the “factory, establishment, or other premises at which” the workmen were “last employed,” for there is such disqualification in that event…