Section 61-6-9 – Voluntary separation without good cause–Additional claims during benefit year–Trade readjustment payments.
61-6-9. Voluntary separation without good cause–Additional claims during benefit year–Trade readjustment payments. An unemployed individual who, voluntarily without good cause, left the most recent employment of an employer or employing unit, after employment lasting at least thirty calendar days is denied benefits until the individual has been reemployed at least six calendar weeks in insured […]
Section 61-6-9.1 – Good cause for voluntarily leaving employment restricted to certain situations.
61-6-9.1. Good cause for voluntarily leaving employment restricted to certain situations. Good cause for voluntarily leaving employment is restricted to leaving employment because: (1)Continued employment presents a hazard to the employee’s health. However, this subdivision applies only if: (a)Before separation from the employment, the employee is examined by a licensed practitioner of the healing arts, […]
Section 61-6-13 – Benefits denied to persons employed while incarcerated–Reemployment.
61-6-13. Benefits denied to persons employed while incarcerated–Reemployment. An unemployed individual who was last employed, the employment being at least thirty calendar days in duration, while incarcerated in a custodial or penal institution, and terminated from the employment because of transfer or release from the institution, is denied benefits until the individual has been reemployed […]
Section 61-6-14 – Separation for misconduct–Additional claims during benefit year.
61-6-14. Separation for misconduct–Additional claims during benefit year. An unemployed individual who was discharged or suspended from the individual’s most recent employment, the employment being at least thirty calendar days in duration for misconduct connected with the individual’s work shall be denied benefits until the individual has been reemployed at least six calendar weeks in […]
Section 61-6-14.1 – Misconduct defined.
61-6-14.1. Misconduct defined. As used in this chapter, misconduct is: (1)Failure to obey orders, rules, or instructions, or failure to discharge the duties for which an individual was employed; or (2)Substantial disregard of the employer’s interests or of the employee’s duties and obligations to the employer; or (3)Conduct evincing such willful or wanton disregard of […]
Section 61-6-15 – Benefits not payable for unemployment due to labor dispute–Exceptions.
61-6-15. Benefits not payable for unemployment due to labor dispute–Exceptions. An individual is not entitled to any benefits for any week with respect to which the secretary finds that the individual’s total or partial unemployment is due to a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual is or was […]
Section 61-6-16 – Failure to seek or accept suitable employment.
61-6-16. Failure to seek or accept suitable employment. If the Department of Labor and Regulation finds that an unemployed individual has failed, without good cause, either to apply for available suitable work when so directed by the department or to accept suitable work when offered to the individual, the claimant shall be denied benefits, including […]
Section 61-6-2 – Computation of weekly benefit amount.
61-6-2. Computation of weekly benefit amount. An individual’s weekly benefit amount is computed as follows: For each fiscal year, one twenty-sixth of the wages paid for insured work in the individual’s quarter of highest earnings in the individual’s base period, but not to exceed an amount equal to fifty percent of the average weekly wage […]
Section 61-6-4 – Minimum base period and highest quarter wages required for benefits.
61-6-4. Minimum base period and highest quarter wages required for benefits. No individual is entitled to benefits unless the individual’s base period wages paid in other than the individual’s highest quarter equal or exceed twenty times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, and unless the wages paid for insured work in the individual’s quarter of highest […]
Section 61-6-5 – Benefits payable for each week of unemployment–Reduction for wages earned or received during week.
61-6-5. Benefits payable for each week of unemployment–Reduction for wages earned or received during week. For each individual who is unemployed in any week, as defined in §§61-1-51 to 61-1-54, inclusive, benefits with respect to that week are paid in an amount determined by §61-6-2. A benefit amount that is not a multiple of one […]