Deleted Emergency Rule (06/03/2020)

PART II CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS

2.1.7 Filing a Continued Claim. 

.5 The division, at its discretion during AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY, MAY a COVID-19 pandemic, shall waive the waiting week requirement.

2.4 Job Attachment

2.4.5 Duration of Job Attachment. 
.2  The division may permit a period of job attachment to a claimant who suffers a lack of work as a direct result of AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR STATE OF EMERGENCY AS DECLARED an order by the governor which requires the closure of places of public accommodation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such job attachment shall be for a period no longer than THE CRISIS OR DECLARATIONthe period of closure required by the order.

2.8 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

2.8.4 Actively Seeking Work. 

.12  The division, at its discretion during a COVID-19 pandemic, shall AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY MAY waive the work-search requirement. When the work-search requirement is waived, the division may require that a claimant register for work with the online job database. THE DIVISION SHALL ISSUE A PUBLIC NOTICE OF ANY CHANGES TO THE WORK SEARCH REQUIREMENTS MADE PURSUANT TO THESE REGULATIONS.

2.8.6  THE WAITING WEEK.  Any unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the division finds that the individual has been either totally or partially unemployed for a waiting period of one week except that, this requirement shall be waived DURING TIMES OF AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR STATE OF EMERGENCY AS DECLARED BY THE GOVERNORas a direct result of an order by the governor during a COVID-19 pandemic.  

PART IV JOB SEPARATIONS

4.3 SEPARATIONS RELATED TO THE 2020 COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ECONOMIC CRISIS

4.3.1.2  As a direct result of an order by the governor, aAny benefits awarded and paid during AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR STATE OF EMERGENCY AS DECLARED BY THE GOVERNOR a COVID-19 pandemic and normally charged to the employer’s account and experience rate shallMAY be charged to the fund. THE DIVISION SHALL ISSUE A PUBLIC NOTICE OF ANY CHANGES MADE TO BENEFIT CHARGING PURSUANT TO THESE REGULATIONS.

4.3.1.3  Benefits payable pursuant to this regulation 4.3 shall not be payable during any week during which the claimant has been determined to be entitled to other, similar benefits which may be made available by act of Congress or the President in response to AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR STATE OF EMERGENCY the COVID-19 pandemic.

PART VI PREMIUMS AND ASSESSMENTS 

6.1 EMPLOYER PREMIUMS 

6.1.2 Due Date of Premiums. 

.2  QUARTERLY Payment will be considered timely if AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY:

.1 A COVID-19 infection at the employer's place of business cCaused the employer to close or severely curtail operations THE EMPLOYER’S PLACE OF BUSINESS AND THE EMPLOYER NOTIFIED THE DIVISION WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DUE DATE; OR.

.2  The employer or an immediate family member received a request from a medical professional, local health official, or the secretary of health to be isolated or quarantined as a consequence of COVID-19 AND THE EMPLOYER NOTIFIED THE DIVISION WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DUE DATE; AND.

PART VII EMPLOYER RECORDS AND REPORTS

7.2 REPORTS 

7.2.4 Unemployment Insurance Quarterly Reports. 

.2 Reports will be considered timely if AN ECONOMIC CRISIS OR DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY:

.1 A COVID-19 infection at the employer's place of business cCaused the employer to close or severely curtail operations THE EMPLOYER’S PLACE OF BUSINESS AND THE EMPLOYER NOTIFIED THE DIVISION WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DUE DATE; OR.

.2  The employer or an immediate family member received a request from a medical professional, local health official, or the secretary of health to be isolated or quarantined as a consequence of COVID-19 AND THE EMPLOYER NOTIFIED THE DIVISION WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DUE DATE; AND.