Southern Creosoting Co. v. Whitfield

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• noting that a “stoppage or curtailment of work” may occur in one of three forms: (1) total cessation of work in the premises; (2) cessation of work by part of the employees, which prevents others in the premises from working; or (3
• decrease of 30V of the total business transacted by the employer constituted a stoppage of work
• decrease of 30% of the total business transacted by the employer constituted a stoppage of work
• ”[T]he technical meaning of the term, 'stoppage of work,' as used in our disqualification clause, is a substantial curtailment of work in an establishment, not the cessation of work by the claimant or claimants.”
• thirty percent reduction in business was substantial and disqualifying; court relied on decisions in New Jersey and Oregon denying unemployment benefits where production decreases were less than thirty percent
• stoppage of work where trucking company’s business operations decreased 30%

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).