Source: http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/bills_128th/chapters/PUBLIC117.asp
Timestamp: 2018-12-12 18:46:16
Document Index: 416798698

Matched Legal Cases: ['§1043', '§2', '§1', '§1043', '§11', '§27', '§1043', '§19', '§28', '§1192', '§6', '§1', '§1192', '§13', '§4', '§1193', '§1', '§1', '§1193', '§1', '§1', '§1193', '§1', '§1193', '§7', '§2', '§1198', '§1', '§1', '§3', '§1198', '§2', '§3', '§1221', '§3', '§1']

PUBLIC Law, Chapter 117, An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Unemployment Compensation
LD 1530 PUBLIC Law, Chapter 117
Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §1043, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1999, c. 555, §1, is further amended to read:
Sec. 2. 26 MRSA §1043, sub-§11, ¶F, as repealed and replaced by PL 2011, c. 691, Pt. A, §27, is amended to read:
(d) Service is performed in a facility conducted for the purpose of carrying out a program of rehabilitation for individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental disability or injury or providing remunerative work for individuals who, because of their impaired physical or mental capacity, cannot be readily absorbed in the competitive labor market by an individual receiving such rehabilitation or remunerative work with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are employed in capacities meeting the conditions set forth in section 666;
(i) Prior to January 1, 1978, service is performed in the employ of a school that is not an institution of higher education and after December 31, 1977, service Service is performed in the employ of a governmental entity referred to in paragraph A-1, subparagraph (1) if that service is performed by an individual in the exercise of duties:
(d) The party requesting services furnishes neither equipment nor the place of employment to the professional investigator . ; and
For purposes of this subparagraph, "governmental entity" has the same meaning as in section 1221, subsection 10.
Sec. 3. 26 MRSA §1043, sub-§19, as amended by PL 2011, c. 691, Pt. A, §28, is further amended to read:
19. Wages. "Wages" means all remuneration for personal services, including commissions, bonuses, severance or terminal pay, gratuities and the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash. The reasonable cash value of remuneration in any medium other than cash shall must be estimated and determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the commission, except that:
A. For purposes of section 1221, the term "wages" does not include remuneration that exceeds the first $7,000 through December 31, 1999, and on and after January 1, 2000, the first $12,000 that is paid in a calendar year to an individual by an employer or the employer's predecessor for employment during any calendar year, unless that remuneration is subject to a tax under a federal law imposing a tax against which credit may be taken for contributions required to be paid into a state unemployment fund. The wages of an individual for employment with an employer are subject to this exception whether earned in this State or any other state when the employer-employee relationship is between the same legal entities;
B. For purposes of section 1191, subsection 2, section 1192, subsection 5 and section 1221, the term "wages" shall does not include:
(1) The amount of any payment, including any amount paid by an employer for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to provide for any such payment, made to, or on behalf of, an employee or any of his the employee's dependents under a plan or system established by an employer which that makes provision for his the employer's employees generally, or for his the employer's employees generally and their dependents, or for a class or classes of his the employer's employees, or for a class or classes of his the employer's employees and their dependents, on account of:
(a) Sickness or accident disability, but, in the case of payments made to an employee or any of his the employee's dependents, this subparagraph shall exclude excludes from the term "wages" only payments which that are received under a workers' compensation law;
(3) The amount of any payment, other than vacation or sick pay, to an individual after the month in which he the individual attains the age of 62, if he the individual did not perform services for the employing unit in the period for which such payment is made and is not expected to perform service in the future for the payment; or
(4) The amount of any nominal fee or stipend to a volunteer whose service is excluded from the definition of employment pursuant to subsection 11, paragraph F, subparagraph (35);
except to the extent that assistance under Title II of the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 was paid on the basis of such services;
D. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to include as wages any payment which that is not included as wages under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, 26 United States Code, Section 3306(b)(5) and (r), as amended, as of January 1, 1985; and
E. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to exclude from wages any remuneration which that is:
(2) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
Sec. 4. 26 MRSA §1192, sub-§6-E, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 705, §1, is amended to read:
6-E. Prohibition against disqualification of individuals in approved training under federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, unless inconsistent with federal law, the acceptance of training opportunities available through the federal Workforce Investment Innovation and Opportunity Act of 1998, 20 United States Code, Sections 9201 to 9276 (1998) is deemed to be acceptance of training with the approval of the State within the meaning of any other provision of federal or state law relating to unemployment benefits.
Sec. 5. 26 MRSA §1192, sub-§13, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 645, §4, is amended to read:
13. Reemployment services and eligibility assessment; participation. In the case that the individual has been referred to reemployment services and eligibility assessment services by the Department of Labor, the individual participates in those services, unless the department determines there is good cause for the individual's failure to participate. Failure to participate in reemployment services and eligibility assessment services without good cause results in a denial of benefits until the individual participates.
Sec. 6. 26 MRSA §1193, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2009, c. 33, §1, is further amended to read:
(2) The leaving was necessary to accompany, follow or join the claimant's spouse in a new place of residence , and the claimant is in all respects able, available and actively seeking suitable work;
Sec. 7. 26 MRSA §1193, sub-§1, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 702, Pt. F, §1, is amended to read:
C. For the duration of an unpaid voluntary a leave of absence or sabbatical leave that has been mutually agreed to by the employee and the employer.
Sec. 8. 26 MRSA §1193, sub-§1, ¶D is enacted to read:
D. For the duration of a partial separation or reduction of hours initiated at the employee's request and agreed to by the employee and employer;
Sec. 9. 26 MRSA §1193, sub-§7-A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 420, §2, is amended to read:
7-A. Absence from work due to incarceration. For the duration of his the individual's unemployment subsequent to a discharge arising from his the individual's absence from work for more than 2 workdays due to his the individual's incarceration for conviction of a criminal offense. This disqualification continues until the claimant individual has earned 4 8 times his the individual's weekly benefit amount in employment by an employer; or
Sec. 10. 26 MRSA §1198, sub-§1, ¶F, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 91, §1 and affected by §3, is amended to read:
F. "Intermittent employment" means employment that is not continuous but may consist of intervals of weekly work and intervals of no weekly work or annually reoccurring reductions of work at a year-round business that has not been determined seasonal.
Sec. 11. 26 MRSA §1198, sub-§2, ¶J, as enacted by PL 2013, c. 448, §3, is amended to read:
J. The eligible employer allows eligible employees to participate, as appropriate, in training, including employer-sponsored training or worker training funded under the federal Workforce Investment Innovation and Opportunity Act of 1998, Public Law 105-220, 112 Stat. 936, to enhance job skills if such training has been approved by the commissioner.
Sec. 12. 26 MRSA §1221, sub-§3, ¶A, as amended by PL 2013, c. 175, §1, is further amended to read:
A. At the time the status of an employing unit is ascertained to be that of an employer, the commissioner shall establish and maintain, until the employer status is terminated, for the employer an experience rating record, to which are credited all the contributions that the employer pays on the employer's own behalf. This chapter may not be construed to grant any employer or individuals in the employer's service prior claims or rights to the amounts paid by the employer into the fund. Benefits paid to an eligible individual under the Maine Employment Security Law must be charged against the experience rating record of the claimant's most recent subject employer or to the General Fund if the otherwise chargeable experience rating record is that of an employer whose status as such has been terminated; except that no charge may be made to an individual employer but must be made to the General Fund if the commission finds that:
(7) The claimant was hired by the claimant's last employer to fill a position left open by an individual who left to enter active duty in the United States military, and the claimant's separation from this employer was because the employer restored the military serviceperson to the person's former employment upon separation from military service; or
(8) The claimant was hired by the claimant's last employer to fill a position left open by an individual given a leave of absence for family medical leave provided under Maine or federal law, and the claimant's separation from this employer was because the employer restored the individual to the position at the completion of the leave . ; or