Builders' Mutual Casualty Co. v. Industrial Commission
Builders' Mutual Casualty Co. v. Industrial Commission
Opinion of the Court
Jesse Schultz was employed on the construction of an overhead bridge on a state highway. He was
The statute governing the amount of the employee’s award is sec. 102.11, Stats., which provides that in determining average daily wage “no day during which an employee has worked less than eight hours shall be taken into consideration unless by agreement or custom a lesser number of hours’ work constitutes the full day’s service for such day.” Under this statute the Industrial Commission computed the employee’s compensation for permanent disability on the basis of an eight-hour day. The learned circuit judge was of opinion under the facts stated that by agreement six hours’ work constituted a full day’s service and that the compensation should have been computed on the basis of a six-hour day, and remanded the record for fixation of the award on that basis.
We are of opinion that the judgment of the circuit court is clearly right. The employer was required by his contract to employ men only six hours a day. He therefore understood when he employed Schultz that Schultz was to work only six hours a day. Schultz so understood. There was
By the Court. — The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.
Reference
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- Builders' Mutual Casualty Company and another v. Industrial Commission, Appellant: Schultz
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