Vait v. Merillat Industries

WAHL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals affirming a compensation judge’s determination that Minn.Stat. § 176.102, subd. 9 (1986) does not require the self-insured employer to pay for reasonable costs of travel and custodial daycare while the employee participated in an on-the-job training program. We reverse.

The parties in this case have submitted the following stipulated facts:

“Cathy Vait sustained an injury to her right elbow on July 11, 1985, in the course and scope of her employment as an assembler for the self-insured employer…