Key legal question
Whether employees of a municipal forestry operation are entitled to bad-weather compensation despite being in public service.
Extracted holding
Yes. Public-service employment does not by itself exclude entitlement, and the municipal forestry workers fell within the compensable branch of work.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on earlier case law recognizing public employees as generally eligible. The municipality had no effective tax sovereignty for financing this activity and was economically comparable to a private employer; the risk was a branch-specific weather loss covered by unemployment insurance.