Particularly in the last five years there has been a substantial maturing of the labor dispute disqualification of the various state unemployment compensation statutes. The unpredictable and vacillating administrative decision has given way to more authoritative court decision. In turn, the nonconforming court decision has tended to disappear as clear majority interpretations of the various questions arising under the disqualification begin to develop. Further, and perhaps most significantly, a number of states which have experimented with various nonconforming types of labor dispute disqualification provisions have tended to abandon these experiments and return to the more conventional pattern. Hence, with regard to most of the questions arising under the labor dispute disqualification, generally accepted answers are emerging--answers which do not vary across jurisdictional lines.
There has been scholarly exploration with respect to all questions in the labor dispute disqualification. The various ramifications have been evaluated in inquiring and thorough detail.\u27 It now appears to be time for a primer, and the first part of this article is so designed. Yet it is highly inaccurate to state that the possibility of change in the labor dispute disqualification has disappeared. Some problems it raises continue to invade areas of sensitive concern both to employers and to employees. The second portion of this article will be directed at exploring some of those more sensitive areas
