Stewart
Stewart v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board
Opinion
Lead Opinion
McCoy, J.
Petitioner, an applicant for workmen’s compensation insurance benefits, seeks review and annulment of the order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board dated January 2, 1968, denying reconsideration and affirming an order of a referee that applicant take *949 nothing on her claim against “Douglas S. Mater, doing business as Domestic Sanitation Attendant Council. ’ ’
The applicant, born 1921, was referred by the California Department of Employment to the “Domestic Sanitation Attendant Council” (sometimes referred to as the “Council”) on May 1, 1966, for training in domestic cleaning methods and equipment. She was paid $46 per week by the Department of Employment while going to the school. She finished the course on June 5, 1966. A few days before her graduation, one Mayer, sometimes referred to as “administrator” of the “Council,” talked to the graduating class of about twenty people, trainees, including petitioner, regarding job placement. Upon graduation she was informed by Mayer that she would be given work at $1.50 per hour doing house cleaning in apartment buildings throughout the city as a demonstrator of the work done by the graduates. Thereafter she reported for work…