RIOS v. EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPT.

Docket No. A027850.

187 Cal.App.3d 489 (1986)

231 Cal. Rptr. 732

MARIA RIOS et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT et. al., Defendants and Appellants. JULIAN RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

November 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, John Davidson and Winifred Y. Smith, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Appellants.

Marilyn A. Woollard, Barbara A. Jones, Victor M. Chavez and Juan Arambula for Plaintiffs and Respondents.


OPINION

KING, J.

In this case we uphold a superior court ruling that nine migrant farmworkers were "available for work" as required by statute, despite their return to their permanent homes in Texas during the off-season, and thus were eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.

The nine farmworkers all maintain permanent homes in the lower Rio Grande Valley area of Texas. On a yearly basis, for as many as 25 years, each...

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