context: Wilkins argues, based on an unreported decision of a Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel, that a failure to incorporate the average weekly wage concept into the temporary partial disability calculation would undermine workers' compensation policy. She notes that the calculation of an employee's average weekly wage includes such compensation as overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 559 S.W.2d 793, 795
citation_a.parenthetical: stating that the earnings of an employee under this definition "include anything received by him under the terms of his employment contract from which he realizes economic gain"
citation_a.sentence: See P & L Const. Co. v. Lankford, 559 S.W.2d 793, 795 (Tenn. 1978) (stating that the earnings of an employee under this definition “include anything received by him under the terms of his employment contract from which he realizes economic gain”).
citation_b.signal: but see
citation_b.identifier: 886 S.W.2d 760, 760
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that the scope of the "average weekly wage" definition is not unlimited and concluding that it excludes "fringe benefits"
citation_b.sentence: But see Pollard, 886 S.W.2d at 760 (holding that the scope of the “average weekly wage” definition is not unlimited and concluding that it excludes “fringe benefits”).