Worobec v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

In Worobec v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 112 Pa. Commw. 643, 536 A.2d 467, 469 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1988), the Court held that "the common and approved usage of the term 'livestock' would include horses." In that case, we held that persons engaged in raising, breeding and caring for horses were agricultural laborers within the meaning of the Unemployment Compensation Law. The Court further explained that because the common usage of the term "livestock" includes horses and the General Assembly has defined the term in other statutes relating to agriculture as including horses, we are led to the inevitable conclusion that the General Assembly intended the term "livestock" to include horses. Id. at 470. This Court specifically held that it "is of no moment that these horses were bred, raised and trained for show purposes rather than for use on the farm." Id.