Loading chat...
IN HB1198
Bill
Status
1/9/2018
Primary Sponsor
Heath VanNatter
Click for details
AI Summary
-
Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program effective July 1, 2018, allowing employers to reduce employee work hours instead of laying off workers.
-
Requires employers to submit written work sharing plans to the commissioner of the department of workforce development for approval, with decisions made within 15 calendar days.
-
Work sharing plans must reduce normal weekly work hours by at least 10% but no more than 50%, spread equally among affected employees who have been continuously employed for at least 16 months.
-
Affected employees receive weekly work sharing benefits equal to their standard unemployment benefit multiplied by the percentage of hours reduced, capped at 52 weeks per benefit period.
-
Adds protection to IC 22-4-15-1 stating that affected employees participating in approved work sharing plans are not disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits.
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
First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
1/9/2018