Ford Motor Company, Appellant v. New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, Division of Employment Security…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed the Appellate Division’s decision allowing unemployment benefits to Ford Motor Company employees at its Edgewater and Metuchen plants. The Court held that the phrase “factory, establishment, or other premises” in the unemployment compensation statute refers to a distinct physical place of employment, not a functionally integrated enterprise, and therefore the New Jersey plants are separate establishments from the Michigan plants where the labor dispute originated.