Janda v. General Motors Corp.

The appellants are twenty-nine employees at a plant of the General Motors Corporation in Baltimore who were denied unemployment insurance benefits for a week in January 1963. The reason for the denials by the claims specialist of the Department of Employment Security of Maryland was that each claimant had received from the employer during the week in question “pay in lieu of vacation” under a written contract between the employer and the union to which the claimant belonged, and that this “vacation allowance” (in the words of the contract) constituted wages for benefit purposes under the…