Boeing Airplane Co. v. Commissioner of the Employment Security Department

Andrew Bernard Anderson was employed by the Boeing Airplane Company, a corporation, at Seattle from April 14,1947, to November 25,1949. During the latter portion of this employment, he was classified as an “Assembler-Installer Electric and Radio ‘A’,” receiving $1.63 an hour, plus a bonus of ten cents an hour when working on the second shift.

November 25, 1949, Anderson was informed that there was a surplus of workers in the “A” classification and was offered a transfer to another work area at the same general type of work but with a “B” classification, at a wage of $1.43 an hour for the first…