Court Opinion

ID: 9638133
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:34:27.10885+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:04.039854
License: Public Domain

EVANS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
There are several reasons why the amount received by the employee from unemployment insurance should be deducted.
(a) Paying the employee more than he would have received had he remained in respondent’s employment tends to encourage labor disputes.
(b) An employee, discharged in violation of the Labor Act, should be reimbursed for the loss occasioned by his discharge. This loss is ordinarily the wages he would have earned had he not been discharged, less sums which he has earned since his discharge. What he has earned should include the amount paid him as unemployment insurance, because such sum is money earned by him while he was working, and paid by his employer into the fund while he was working, although the actual payment to him was deferred until his unemployment period arrived. The insurance grew out of his employment and was so connected with his employment wages, as to require its deduction in determining his wage loss due to his unlawful discharge.
(c) To so construe a statute that a discharged employee will receive more compensation when discharged than when employed seems incongruous and illogical. It is so contrary to sound public policy that we can ascribe to Congress no intent to accomplish such a purpose.