RCW 50.20.010 Benefit eligibility conditions. (1) An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive waiting period credits or benefits with respect to any week in his or her eligibility period only if the commissioner finds that: (a) The individual has registered for work at, and thereafter has continued to report at, an employment office in […]
RCW 50.20.011 Profiling system to identify individuals likely to exhaust benefits—Confidentiality of information—Penalty. (1) The commissioner shall establish and use a profiling system for new claimants for regular compensation under this title that identifies permanently separated workers who are likely to exhaust regular compensation and will need job search assistance services to make a successful […]
RCW 50.20.012 Rules—1995 c 381. The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to implement the 1995 c 381 §§ 1 and *3 amendments to RCW 50.20.010 and 50.20.043 and 50.20.011, including but not limited to definitions, eligibility standards, program review criteria and procedures, and provisions necessary to comply with applicable federal laws and regulations that […]
RCW 50.20.020 Waiting period credit limitation. (1) No week shall be counted as a waiting period week if benefits have been paid for that week, the individual was otherwise eligible for benefits, and it occurs within the benefit year which includes the week with respect to which the individual claims payment of benefits. (2) If […]
RCW 50.20.041 Health care professionals who have contracted hepatitis C—Training. (1) Credentialed health care professionals listed in RCW 18.130.040 shall be deemed to be dislocated workers for the purpose of commissioner approval of training under RCW 50.20.043 if they are unemployed as a result of contracting hepatitis C in the course of employment and are […]
RCW 50.20.042 Unemployed aerospace workers—Training. Aerospace workers unemployed as the result of downsizing and restructuring of the aerospace industry will be deemed to be dislocated workers for the purpose of commissioner approval of training under RCW 50.20.043. [ 1993 c 226 § 7.] NOTES: Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—Application—1993 c 226: See notes following RCW 50.16.010.
RCW 50.20.043 Training provision. No otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week because the individual is in training with the approval of the commissioner, nor shall such individual be denied benefits with respect to any week in which the individual is satisfactorily progressing in a training program with the approval of the […]
RCW 50.20.044 Ineligibility for benefits for failure to attend job search workshop or training course. If an otherwise eligible individual fails without good cause, as determined by the commissioner under rules prescribed by the commissioner, to attend a job search workshop or a training or retraining course when directed by the department and such workshop […]
RCW 50.20.050 Disqualification for leaving work voluntarily without good cause. (1) With respect to separations that occur on or after September 6, 2009, and for separations that occur before April 4, 2021: (a) A claimant shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which the claimant left work […]
RCW 50.20.060 Disqualification from benefits due to misconduct. With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004, an individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which he or she has been discharged or suspended for misconduct connected with his or her work […]
RCW 50.20.065 Cancellation of hourly wage credits due to felony or gross misdemeanor. With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004: (1) An individual who has been discharged from his or her work because of a felony or gross misdemeanor of which he or she has been convicted, or has […]
RCW 50.20.066 Disqualification from benefits due to misconduct—Cancellation of hourly wage credits due to gross misconduct. With respect to claims that have an effective date on or after January 4, 2004: (1) An individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which he or she has been […]
RCW 50.20.070 Disqualification for misrepresentation—Penalties. (1) With respect to determinations delivered or mailed before January 1, 2008, an individual is disqualified for benefits for any week he or she has knowingly made a false statement or representation involving a material fact or knowingly failed to report a material fact and, as a result, has obtained […]
RCW 50.20.080 Disqualification for refusal to work. An individual is disqualified for benefits, if the commissioner finds that the individual has failed without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work when so directed by the employment office or the commissioner, or to accept suitable work when offered the individual, or to return to […]
RCW 50.20.085 Disqualification for receipt of industrial insurance disability benefits. An individual is disqualified from benefits with respect to any day or days for which he or she is receiving, has received, or will receive compensation under RCW 51.32.060 or 51.32.090. [ 1991 c 117 § 2; 1986 c 75 § 1.] NOTES: Conflict with […]
RCW 50.20.090 Strike or lockout disqualification—When inapplicable. (1) An individual shall be disqualified for benefits for any week with respect to which the commissioner finds that the individual’s unemployment is: (a) Due to a strike at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual is or was last employed; or (b) Due to […]
RCW 50.20.095 Disqualification for attending school or institution of higher education. Any individual registered at an established school in a course of study providing scholastic instruction of twelve or more hours per week, or the equivalent thereof, shall be disqualified from receiving benefits or waiting period credit for any week during the school term commencing […]
RCW 50.20.098 Services performed by alien. (1) Benefits shall not be paid on the basis of services performed by an alien unless the alien is an individual who was lawfully admitted for permanent residence, was lawfully present for purposes of performing such services, or otherwise was permanently residing in the United States under color of […]
RCW 50.20.099 Training benefits—Eligibility to work in the United States. (1) To ensure that unemployment insurance benefits are paid in accordance with RCW 50.20.098, the employment security department shall verify that an individual is eligible to work in the United States before the individual receives training benefits under RCW 50.22.150 or 50.22.155. (2) By July […]
RCW 50.20.100 Suitable work factors. (1) Suitable work for an individual is employment in an occupation in keeping with the individual’s prior work experience, education, or training and if the individual has no prior work experience, special education, or training for employment available in the general area, then employment which the individual would have the […]
