An agreement to waive, release or commute rights to benefits, or other rights, accruing under this chapter shall be invalid. An agreement by an individual to pay all or any portion of an employer's payments shall be invalid.
A person who wilfully violates a provision of this chapter or rule or regulation thereunder for which a specific penalty has not been imposed shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction shall be fined not less than $20 nor more than $200, or be imprisoned for not longer than thirty days, or both. […]
(a) Each employer, including labor organizations as defined in subsection (i) of this section, shall, quarterly, submit certified reports on or before the last day of the month next following the calendar quarter, on forms to be prescribed by the commissioner. The reports shall contain: (1) The employers assigned unemployment compensation registration number, the employers […]
The commissioner, through his attorney, may represent the interest of the state in any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
Criminal actions to enforce the provisions of this chapter, or rules or regulations issued thereunder, shall be prosecuted by the Attorney General, or at his request by the prosecuting attorney of any county in which the defendant resides, or by an attorney of the department. The commissioner may cause complaints to be made and proceedings […]
Benefits under this chapter shall be due and payable only to the extent that moneys are available to the credit of the unemployment compensation fund. Neither the state nor the commissioner shall be liable for any claim in excess of the credit of the fund.
The provisions of this chapter shall be construed as severable, and should any provision be held unconstitutional, or for any other reason invalid, the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby.
Acts or parts of acts in conflict with or superseded by the provisions of this chapter are hereby repealed.
The Legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this chapter and no private rights shall vest against any legislative amendment or change or repeal. All rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by this chapter or by acts done pursuant thereto shall exist subject to the power of the Legislature to […]
Whenever legislation enacted by the Congress of the United States providing for a federal payroll tax against which the contribution required by this chapter may be credited, is repealed, amended, interpreted, affected, or otherwise changed in such manner that no portions of the contributions required by this chapter may be thus credited, then upon the […]
(a) The Bureau of Employment Programs shall disclose, upon request, to officers or employees of any state or local child support enforcement agency, and to employees of the federal secretary of health and human services, any wage and benefit information with respect to individuals which is contained in its records. The term "state or local […]
(a) An assignment, pledge or encumbrance of any benefit due or payable under this chapter is invalid. Right to benefits is exempt from levy, execution, attachment or other processes for the collection of debt. Benefits received by an individual so long as they are not mingled with other funds of the recipient, are exempt from […]
(1) The Bureau of Employment Programs shall disclose, upon request, to officers and employees of the United States Department of Agriculture and any state food stamp agency, with respect to an identified individual, any of the following information which is contained in its records:
A person who, by reason of error, irrespective of the nature of said error, has received a sum as a benefit under this chapter, shall either have such sum deducted from a future benefit payable to him or shall repay to the commissioner the amount which he has received. Collection shall be made in the […]
(1) The Bureau of Employment Programs shall disclose, upon request, to officers and employees of the department of housing and urban development and to representatives of public housing agencies, any wage and benefit information with respect to an identified individual which is contained in its records. The term "public housing agencies" means any agency described […]
(a) There is hereby established the West Virginia Unemployment Compensation Insurance Fraud Unit within the offices of the commissioner. The commissioner may employ full-time supervisory, legal, and investigative personnel for the unit who shall be qualified by training and experience in the areas of detection, investigation, or prosecution of fraud within and against the unemployment […]
No fee shall be charged an individual in any proceeding under this chapter by the department or its representatives.
(1) An employing unit shall keep true and accurate work records containing such information as the commissioner may prescribe. The record shall be open to inspection and be subject to being copied by the commissioner or his authorized representatives at any reasonable time.
An individual may be represented by counsel or authorized agent before the board of review, an appeal tribunal, or examiner, or a court; but the amount of the fee for such service shall be subject to the regulation of the board. A person who charges or accepts a fee for such service in an amount […]
A person shall not be excused from attending and testifying or producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, or other records before the commissioner or the board or in obedience to the subpoena of the board or the commissioner, or a duly authorized representative of the board or the commissioner, in any proceeding brought under this chapter […]
