Labor & Industrial Relations Commission v. Division of Employment Security

KAROHL, Chief Judge.

This consolidated appeal emanates from a plant closing. It involves two claimants for unemployment benefits and two independent administrative determinations that certain payments to claimants from their former employer made pursuant to a federal notice statute regarding such closings should serve to reduce unemployment benefits. Essentially, the two cases were factually and procedurally identical through the point at which the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission [Commission] adopted findings that payments made to the claimants by their employer pursuant to the…