# Kaolin Mushroom Farms, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

> Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · December 22, 1995 · 669 A.2d 438

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4952091

## Case

- **Full name:** KAOLIN MUSHROOM FARMS, INC. v. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BOARD OF REVIEW
- **Court:** Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 22, 1995
- **Citations:** 669 A.2d 438; 1995 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 591
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Lord
- **Judges:** Friedman, Lord, Newman
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

LORD, Senior Judge,
concurring.
I concur. I thoroughly agree with the majority opinion in all but one respect.
While a reduction of ten percent in wages may not be substantial in some instances, and while there is admittedly language in Steinberg Vision Associates noting that “a 14.2% wage reduction is at the cusp,” of having a substantial impact, I cannot agree that a ten percent reduction in the wages of a mushroom picker making $6 per hour is not a substantial reduction. I cannot accept the notion of a percentage-based “cusp” because I am convinced that the percentage varies with the wage — the less the wages, the more impact any percentage reduction has.
FRIEDMAN, J., joins in this concurring opinion.

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