(a) As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of the Virgin Islands is declared to be as follows: Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a threat to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of the Virgin Islands, and protection against this hazard requires appropriate action by […]
Qualifying requirements (a) To qualify as an insured worker, an individual: (1) (A) Shall have been paid at least $858 for insured work in that quarter of his base period in which his total wages were the highest; and (B) Shall have earned total base period wages for insured work equal to at least one […]
(a) (1) An insured worker shall be eligible for and shall receive waiting-week credit or benefits, as the case may be, for any week of his unemployment with respect to which he has not been determined to be disqualified under subsection (b) of this section if such worker has, in accordance with regulations prescribed by […]
(a) Benefits shall be paid solely through public employment offices, or such other agencies as the U.S. Secretary of Labor shall approve, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Labor. Information to workers on benefit rights (b) The Commissioner of Labor shall supply to each employer, without cost to the employer, printed statements […]
(a) The Commissioner of Labor shall appoint one or more hearing examiners, selected in accordance with section 312(b) of this chapter, to hear and decide appeals from determinations and redeterminations; Provided, however, that no person may be selected as a hearing examiner unless he is qualified by education and experience to hear and decide appeals […]
(a) (1) On his own motion or on the application of an employing unit, the Commissioner shall, on the basis of facts found by him, determine whether the service performed for it constitutes employment. (2) Within one year after he has made a determination under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Commissioner may, on his […]
(a) Contributions with respect to wages for employment shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year in which he is subject to this chapter. Such contributions shall become due and be paid by each employer to the Commissioner of Finance for the Unemployment Fund not less frequently than quarterly, in accordance […]
(a) If contributions or payments in lieu of contributions are not paid on the date on which they are due and payable as prescribed by the Commissioner of Labor, the whole or part thereafter remaining unpaid shall bear interest at a rate of 9% per annum from such due date until payment is received by […]
(a) There is hereby established in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands as a special fund, separate and apart from all public money or funds of the Virgin Islands, an Unemployment Fund, which shall be administered by the Commissioner of Labor exclusively for the purposes of this chapter. This fund shall consist of: (1) all […]
(a) There is hereby established, in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands, a special fund to be known as the Employment Security Administration Fund, effective on the day after the date the Secretary of Labor of the United States approves the Virgin Islands Unemployment Insurance Act under section 3304(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of […]
(a) There is hereby established in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands a special fund, separate and apart from all public money or funds of the Virgin Islands, to be known as the Penalty and Interest Fund. This fund shall consist of all interest and penalties collected under the provisions of this chapter after the […]
(a) The Unemployment Insurance Service, designated as a division of the Virgin Islands Employment Security Agency by section 153 of this title, shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. [Additional duties and powers of the Commissioner of Labor] (b) In addition to the duties prescribed in section 153 of this title, […]
(a) (1) An insured worker shall be disqualified for waiting-week credit or benefits for any week of his unemployment if within the 24 calendar months immediately preceding such week he has, with intent to defraud by obtaining any benefits not due under this chapter, made a false statement or misrepresentation of a material fact, knowing […]
(a) The Commissioner, for and on behalf of the Virgin Islands Employment Security Agency, shall participate in reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of any state or of the Federal Government, whereby potential rights to benefits under this chapter may constitute the basis for payment of benefits by a state or by the […]
(a) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise— (1) “Extended benefit period” means a period which (A) begins with the third week after a week for which there is a Virgin Islands “on” indicator; and (B) ends with either of the following weeks, whichever occurs later: (i) the third week after […]
(a) For purposes of this section (1) “Additional benefits” means, benefits financed entirely by the territory and paid, from its account deposited in the Unemployment Trust Fund administered by the Secretary of the United States Treasury, to exhaustees pursuant to this section. (2) “Additional benefits period” means, a period not within an extended benefit period […]
The Legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this chapter at any time; and there shall be no vested private right of any kind against such amendment or repeal. All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by this chapter or by acts done pursuant thereto shall exist subject to […]
If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
This chapter shall take effect on October 1, 1961.
The sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated from any available funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the launching of the program provided in this chapter. This sum shall be placed at the disposal of the Director of the Employment Service as of October 1, 1961.
