Questão jurídica principal
Whether municipal forestry employees are excluded from bad weather compensation because they work in public service
Decisão extraída
No. Public employment alone does not exclude entitlement; forestry workers in a municipality may qualify if the statutory conditions are met.
Fundamentação extraída
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.