THE SEASONAL WORKER AND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS.

The article presents a discussion on the unemployment compensation benefit law for seasonal workers in the U.S. It analyzes present legal provisions regarding seasonal workers and to point out the relation of unemployment compensation theory to the problem of seasonal benefits. There are two common ways of defining seasonal industry and seasonal worker in the law. The first are those laws which define seasonality in terms of a group or class of employers who find it impracticable or impossible to operate for a period or periods of one year in length without laying off a specified percentage of workers. The second type of law defines a seasonal industry as one which operates less than a specified number of weeks. It is generally assumed that unemployment compensation benefits help to stabilize the standard of living of insured workers. That is its main social reason for existence. If laws are so drawn that vast numbers of workers are disqualified on the grounds that they were employed in seasonal industries, then it may be questioned whether unemployment compensation has the value which has been attributed to it by organized labor, many governments, and large numbers of students of the social sciences.