Court Opinion

ID: 9849474
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:40:39.729925+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:02.517610
License: Public Domain

White, J.,
concurring in part, and in part dissenting.
I concur with the majority’s result in this case, with the exception of that part of the opinion which holds that interim unemployment compensation benefits are to be deducted from a discriminatee’s backpay award. The majority correctly notes that there is a conflict of authority as to whether an award of backpay should be reduced by unemployment compensation benefits received by the discriminatee. Unlike the majority, however, I am persuaded by the rationale in the recent decisions which hold that unemployment benefits are not to be deducted from a discriminatee’s backpay award. The design and purpose of the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act is to eliminate discrimina*865tory employment practices, not to foster them. I would therefore hold that it was error, as a matter of law, to deduct the $1,080 Sump received in interim unemployment compensation benefits from his backpay award.
Shanahan and Grant, JJ., join in this concurrence and dissent.