Key legal question
Whether municipal forestry employees are excluded from bad weather compensation because they work in public service
Extracted holding
No. Public employment alone does not exclude entitlement; forestry workers in a municipality may qualify if the statutory conditions are met.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on prior case law recognizing public employees as generally eligible. The municipality had no tax power and had to finance its forestry activity from its own revenues, so it was treated like a private enterprise for this purpose.