Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB246%20SUB1.htm&yr=2009&sesstype=RS&i=246
Timestamp: 2017-07-22 20:54:21
Document Index: 275776278

Matched Legal Cases: ['§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21']

A BILL to amend and reenact §21A-1-4 of the Code of West Virginia,
§21A-5-10a of said code; and to amend and reenact §21A-6-1,
§21A-6-3 and §21A-6-10 of said code, all relating generally to
defining certain terms; creating a temporary solvency
assessment; providing for a temporary solvency assessment if
the balance of the fund falls below certain funded levels;
providing for removal of the temporary solvency assessment;
requiring written notice to employers when assessment will be
collected and terminated; providing for collection of
delinquencies and penalties; providing that the maximum weekly
benefit rate shall not increase or decrease while temporary
solvency assessments are being imposed; providing for an
alternative base wage and authorizing benefits thereunder; requiring notice to employer when employee quits for health
reasons; requiring written certification from physician within
thirty days; classifying certain conduct as gross misconduct;
defining lockout and strike; and providing that an employee
who voluntarily retires is not eligible for unemployment.
of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §21A-6-1, §21A-6-3
and §21A-6-10 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as
vacation; or (C) employees who are on vacation by reason of the employer's request where such vacation is in addition to the
year, the threshold wage thereafter will be reduced to $10,000:
Provided however, That each year thereafter the threshold wage shall increase or decrease by the same percentage that the state's
employees; notice; collection of delinquencies; penalties.
fund is less than $180 million at the end of any calendar quarter,
solvency assessment which shall be in an amount not to exceed
fifteen one hundredths (15/100) of seventy-five one thousandths (.075) of one percent of an employee's gross wages, which amount,
together with an a solvency assessment contributed by the employer
in an amount as determined in accordance with the provisions of as
set forth in subsection (c) of this section, except for
reimbursable employers who shall not be assessed, shall be paid to
the Bureau of Employment Programs Workforce West Virginia on a form
prescribed by the commissioner, at the same time and under the same
conditions as the quarterly contribution payments required under
the provisions of section seven of this article. The commissioner
shall have the right to collect any delinquent assessments under
this section in the same manner as provided for in section sixteen,
article five, chapter twenty-one-a of this code; and in addition,
any delinquency hereunder shall bear interest as set forth in
section seventeen, article five, chapter twenty-one-a of this code.
shall be expressed as a percentage of wages as defined in section
cause the total statewide assessment on such employers to equal the total statewide assessment imposed upon employees of one-half (1/2)
of twenty-five one hundredths (.25) of one percent of wages paid to
their employees as defined in section thirty-two, article one-a of
(d) The commissioner shall give employers written notice when
the balance of the unemployment trust fund is at the level which
requires the collection of the solvency assessment from their
employees. The commissioner shall also give written notice to
employers when no further collection of the employee assessments is
necessary. Employers are not liable for over collection of the
employee assessments as a result of the failure to receive adequate
notice from the commissioner during the time period that the
employee assessments are imposed and for thirty days thereafter.
April, one thousand nine hundred ninety when the balance of the
unemployment compensation trust fund is greater than $220 million
on February 15 of any year.
(f) The commissioner shall have the right to collect any
provided for in section sixteen of this article and any delinquency
hereunder shall bear interest and penalties as set forth in section
by the amount of the decrease imposed under the disqualification; except that:
shall include, but not be limited to, any act or acts of misconduct where the individual has received prior written warning that
unemployment is due to a stoppage of work by the employee which
exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment or
other premises at which he or she was last employed, unless the
commissioner is satisfied that he or she: (1) Was not
participating, financing or directly interested in such dispute;
and (2) did not belong to a grade or class of workers who were
participating, financing or directly interested in the labor
dispute which resulted in the stoppage of work. No
disqualification will be imposed if the employer locks out its
employees and the affected employees offered to continue working
under the terms and conditions of employment which existed
immediately prior to the lockout. For purposes of this
subdivision, a lockout occurs when an employer discontinues all or
a portion of its operations or refuses to permit employees to work
for the purpose of gaining a concession from the employees during a labor dispute. The term "strike" includes any strike or other
concerted stoppage of work by employees, including a stoppage by
reason of the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement, and
any concerted slowdown or other concerted interruption of
operations by employees. No disqualification under this
subdivision shall be imposed if the employees are required to
accept wages, hours or conditions of employment substantially less
favorable than those prevailing for similar work in the locality,
or if employees are denied the right of collective bargaining under
continues longer than four weeks after the termination of the labor
dispute which caused stoppage of work, there shall be a rebuttable
workers' compensation law of any state or under a similar law of the United States; or
his or her request, or that of his or her duly authorized agent, for a vacation period at a specified time that would leave the
provision of this subdivision to the contrary, the weekly benefit amount payable to such individual for such week shall not be
"total and partial unemployment" in section twenty-seven, article one-a of this chapter. The employee's wage class shall be
commissioner shall not increase or decrease the maximum weekly benefit rate during the pendency of a temporary solvency assessment
commissioner, shall be rounded to the next higher dollar.(f) The computation and determination of rates as aforesaid
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stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new