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- Title: Matter Claim Hyman Cohen Et Al.
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 20, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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[52 A.D.2d 997 Page 997] Appeal from decisions of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 20, 1975 and April 3, 1975, which affirmed decisions of a referee sustaining initial determinations of the Industrial Commissioner ruling claimants ineligible to receive benefits on the ground they were not totally unemployed. Claimants were all employed by Artintype Metro, Inc. (Metro) in the printing industry. Metro had a collective bargaining contract with New York Typographical Union Local No. 6 of which all claimants were members. The contract expired, and subsequently, on June 3, 1974, a strike was called. The claimants were assigned regular tours of duty on the picket line. Initially, the shift was for eight hours a day, then reduced to six and later to five. Pursuant to the union rules, striking employees were entitled to benefits of $150 per week from the international union and $12 per week from the local, making a total of $162. The board determined that claimants were not totally unemployed and denied benefits. This appeal ensued. A resolution of the controversy revolves on the issue of whether claimants were totally unemployed as defined in section 522 of the Labor Law which provides as follows: Total unemployment' means the total lack of any employment on any day. The term 'employment' as used in this section means any employment including [52 A.D.2d 997 Page 998]