The threshold of 234 days for a 5-day worker is not a creature of statute, and the best we can say is that it is a guideline followed by Board <a href="https://thelomad.com/getmad.today/wp-contentwww.getmad.today/client-resources/case-law-updates-lomad-case-law-updates/">case law; but as with so much case law</a> published by the Board, there is little pattern to their application of these “instructional” figures