Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission -- Summary of
Wisconsin Court Decision relating to Unemployment Insurance
Subject: Walter P. Furyk  v. LIRC and Lakeland Retirement
Foundation, Ltd., (Hearing No. 98202013RH) Case 99-CV-95 (Wis.
Cir. Ct., Oneida Co., November 17, 1999)  Digest Codes: MC
630.09  The employe worked as a food purchaser/preparer and site
manager for a nonprofit organization that provides meals and
other services to the elderly. He typically began work at 4:30
a.m. or 5:30 a.m. On 11/9/98, his supervisor, Orcutt, arrived at
work at 6:40 a.m. and found nothing disturbed, from which she
inferred that the applicant had not yet arrived. She saw the
kitchen lights go on at 7:10 a.m. and concluded that the employe
arrived at that time. For the next six workdays Orcutt
telephoned the kitchen each morning between 5:30 a.m. and 7:00
a.m. to see if the employe was there. There was never any
answer. On 11/19/98, Orcutt parked across the street from the
employer’s parking lot at 4:30 a.m. and wa