Title: Whitehead v. MISSISSIPPI EMP. SEC. COM'N

State: mississippi

Issuer: Mississippi Supreme Court

Document:

349 So. 2d 1048 (1977) Mary K. WHITEHEAD v. MISSISSIPPI EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION. No. 49715. Supreme Court of Mississippi. September 14, 1977. Anna C. Maddan, Jackson, for appellant. Stephen L. Platt, Jackson, for appellee. Before PATTERSON, SUGG and WALKER, JJ. PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court: This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Madison County. It affirmed a decision of the Board of Review of the Mississippi Employment Security Commission *1049 which denied Mrs. Mary K. Whitehead unemployment benefits. The appellant, Mrs. Whitehead, was denied unemployment compensation benefits when Cornwall Corporation of Canton, Mississippi, went into bankruptcy ending her employment as well as that of other employees. The appellant was employed by Cornwall as a production worker from 1973 until July 3, 1975, at which time she notified her supervisor that she was leaving work to have a baby. The maternity leave was approved and the appellant was advised by her supervisor as follows: Was appellant's employment terminated by the maternity leave or the bankruptcy of her employer? No claim is pressed for benefits during the interval of the maternity leave. We are of the opinion that the issue is disposed of by Smith v. Mississippi Employment Security Commission, 344 So. 2d 137 (Miss. 1977), an almost identical case, wherein we approved the following: We held: We conclude the appellant is entitled to unemployment benefits because her employment was not severed by the maternity leave. In view of this conclusion we do not reach the other assignments of error. REVERSED AND RENDERED. INZER and SMITH, P. JJ., and ROBERTSON, SUGG, WALKER, BROOM, LEE and BOWLING, JJ., concur.