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IN HB1464
Bill
Status
1/18/2017
Primary Sponsor
Martin Carbaugh
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AI Summary
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Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program allowing employers to reduce employee hours instead of conducting layoffs, with affected employees receiving partial unemployment benefits.
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Requires employers seeking participation to submit written work sharing plans to the Department of Workforce Development Commissioner for approval, with approval decisions made within 15 calendar days.
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Eligible employers must be subject to unemployment insurance, have a positive experience account balance, not be delinquent, and must reduce hours by at least 10% but no more than 50% spread equally among affected employees.
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Work sharing benefits equal the employee's weekly unemployment benefit amount multiplied by the percentage reduction in normal weekly work hours, with maximum of 52 weeks of benefits per benefit period.
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Effective July 1, 2017, with program operations beginning after June 30, 2018; work sharing benefits are charged to employers' experience accounts like regular unemployment insurance unless federally reimbursed under the Layoff Prevention Act of 2012.
Legislative Description
Work sharing unemployment benefits. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer that desires to participate in the work sharing unemployment insurance program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage that is equivalent to the number of hours by which an affected employee's normal weekly work hours are reduced divided by the employer's number of normal weekly work hours.
Last Action
Representative Hatfield added as coauthor
1/26/2017