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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 8 - Labor and Industry » Article 73 - Benefits - Eligibility - Disqualification

§ 8-73-101. Payment of Benefits

All benefits provided in this article shall be payable from the fund. All benefits shall be paid through employment offices or such other agencies as the director of the division, by general rule, may designate. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, any amount of unemployment compensation payable to any individual for […]

§ 8-73-102. Weekly Benefit Amount for Total Unemployment – Definitions – Repeal

Except as otherwise provided in section 8-73-104 or subsection (2) of this section, each eligible individual who is totally unemployed in any week shall be paid, with respect to such week, benefits at the rate of sixty percent of one-twenty-sixth of the wages paid for insured work during the two consecutive quarters of the individual’s […]

§ 8-73-103. Benefits for Partial Unemployment – Repeal

Each eligible individual who is partially unemployed shall be paid a partial benefit. Partial benefits shall be in an amount equal to the eligible individual’s weekly benefit amount for total unemployment, minus that part of wages payable to the individual with respect to the week that is in excess of twenty-five percent of the individual’s […]

§ 8-73-104. Duration of Benefits

The division shall compute wage credits for each individual by crediting him with the wages for insured work paid during each quarter of such individual’s base period or twenty-six times the current maximum benefit amount, whichever is the lesser. Any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled during any benefit year to a total amount of […]

§ 8-73-105. Part-Time Workers

As used in this section, “part-time worker” means an individual whose normal work is in an occupation in which his services are not required for the customary scheduled full-time hours prevailing in the establishment in which he is employed or who, owing to personal circumstances, does not customarily work the customary scheduled full-time hours prevailing […]

§ 8-73-105.3. Temporary Employees

As used in this section, “temporary employee” means an individual who is employed by an employer on an irregular schedule and who has agreed to work for the employer on an as-needed or on-call basis. At the time of hire as a temporary employee, an employer must give the employee notice that the employee is […]

§ 8-73-105.5. Employment by Temporary Help Contracting Firm

For the purposes of this section, “temporary help contracting firm” means any person who is in the business of employing individuals and, for compensation from a third party, providing those individuals to perform work for the third party, under the supervision of the third party. Repealed. Employment with a temporary help contracting firm is characterized […]

§ 8-73-106. Seasonal Industry – Definitions

As used in articles 70 to 82 of this title, “seasonal industry” means an industry or functionally distinct occupation within an industry which, because of climatic conditions or the seasonal nature of the employment, customarily employs workers only during a regularly recurring period or periods of less than twenty-six weeks in a calendar year. “Nonseasonal […]

§ 8-73-107. Eligibility Conditions – Penalty

Any unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the division finds that: He or she has registered for work at and thereafter has continued to report at an employment office in accordance with such regulations as the director of the division may prescribe; except that the director […]

§ 8-73-108. Benefit Awards – Definitions

In the granting of benefit awards, it is the intent of the general assembly that the division at all times be guided by the principle that unemployment insurance is for the benefit of persons unemployed through no fault of their own; and that each eligible individual who is unemployed through no fault of his own […]

§ 8-73-109. Strikes or Other Labor Disputes – Definitions

For purposes of this section: “Coordinated bargaining” means two or more employers bargaining with a union where there is communication and accommodation among the employers but where each is free to make independent decisions on some or all of the issues being negotiated with the union, either written notification of the intent to engage in […]

§ 8-73-110. Other Remuneration – Severance Pay – Definitions

The benefits for an individual who is separated from employment and receives a severance allowance must be postponed for a number of calendar weeks after separation from employment that is equal to the total amount of the severance allowance, divided by the individual’s usual weekly wage. The postponement required by this subsection (1) begins with […]

§ 8-73-111. Compensation From Other State

An individual shall not receive an award for any week with respect to which or a part of which he has received or is seeking unemployment benefits under an unemployment compensation law of another state, the federal government, or a foreign country. If the appropriate agency of such other state, the federal government, or a […]

§ 8-73-112. Benefits Payable After Receiving Workers’ Compensation Benefits

Any provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, a person who is separated from employment due to an accident or injury resulting in a temporary total disability for which he has been compensated under section 8-42-105, if otherwise eligible, shall be entitled to receive, after the termination of the continuous period of disability, benefits […]

§ 8-73-113. Benefits Payable During Approved Training – Definition

Notwithstanding any other provisions of articles 70 to 82 of this title, the division shall not deny benefits for any week to an otherwise eligible individual because: The individual is in training approved under section 236 (a)(1) of the federal “Trade Act of 1974”, Pub.L. 93-618, codified at 19 U.S.C. sec. 2296 (a)(1), as amended; […]