ABILLA v. AGSALUD

No. 11699.

741 P.2d 1272 (1987)

William ABILLA, individually and as a representative of the claimants who were employed by Pacific Concrete and Rock Company, Ltd., and Amado P. Agrisola, individually and as a representative of the claimants who were employed by Lone Star Hawaii Rock Products, Inc., Appellants-Appellants, v. Joshua C. AGSALUD, Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, State of Hawaii; Pacific Concrete and Rock Company, Ltd., and Lone Star Hawaii Rock Products, Inc., Appellees-Appellees. Charles GOODNUE, Jr. and Robert Paleka, Appellants-Appellants, v. Joshua C. AGSALUD, Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, State of Hawaii; and Pacific Concrete and Rock Company, Ltd., Appellees-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

August 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colleen H. Sakurai (James E.T. Koshiba with her on the briefs; Koshiba & Young, of counsel), Honolulu, for appellants.

Richard M. Rand (Torkildson, Katz, Jossem, Fonseca & Moore, of counsel), Honolulu, for appellees Pacific Concrete & Lone Star.

Wilfredo Tungol, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Labor & Industrial Relations, Honolulu, for appellee Director of Labor.

LUM, C.J., and NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ.


NAKAMURA, Justice.

An unemployment compensation claimant is disqualified from receiving benefits "[f]or any week with respect to which it is found that [his] unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment or other premises at which [he] is or was last employed."1 The question in this appeal from the Circuit Court of the First Circuit is whether a stoppage of work brought...

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