Court Opinion

ID: 9535000
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:44:34.287078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:09.120887
License: Public Domain

PAPADAKOS, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the majority only because Appellee’s brief admits (at page 5 thereof) that the bonus earned by the claimant in this case was, in fact, a distribution from an established profit sharing plan (although it was not, for tax reasons, so characterized) and hence earned over the course of the full previous year. We should not, however, adopt a per se rule treating all bonuses that way under the Worker’s Compensation Act. It is entirely possible that a “bonus” may be paid in some circumstances that is a one-time payment that should not be prorated over a full year’s period. A per se rule is, on that basis, inherently unfair and may unlawfully punish workers in many cases.
CAPPY, J., joins this concurring opinion.