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NH Rev Stat § 282-A:26-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:26-a - Return to Work Program Participants; Workers' Compensation Eligibility.

    282-A:26-a Return to Work Program Participants;  Workers' Compensation Eligibility. –||I. A participant in the department of employment security's return to work program shall be entitled to certain benefits under RSA 281-A. In the event that it is determined that a return to work program participant has been subject to an injury or occupational disease producing a disability arising out of and in the course of participation in the return to work program, the department of employment security shall not provide compensation pursuant to RSA 281-A:28, 281-A:28-a, 281-A:31, and 281-A:31-a. However, a participant, who has been deemed eligible for unemployment compensation shall receive such benefits while otherwise eligible under RSA 282-A, or compensation equivalent to 90 percent of his or her weekly unemployment compensation benefit amount if the disability causes the participant to become ineligible for benefits under RSA 282-A.||II. When determining the amount of compensation provided pursuant to RSA 281-A:32 for a scheduled permanent impairment award, the amount of compensation shall be calculated by using the minimum wage at the time of injury multiplied by the average number of hours in training per week.||III. For a participant in the return to work program, RSA 281-A:8, I and II shall not apply and the following provisions shall apply:||(a) A participant in the return to work program shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the provisions of this chapter and, on behalf of the participant or the participant's personal or legal representatives, to have waived all rights of action whether at common law or by statute or provided under the laws of any other state or otherwise:||(1) Against the employer/training partner, or the employer/training partner's insurance carrier, or an association or group providing self-insurance to a number of employers, or the department and the return to work program; and||(2) Except for intentional torts, against any officer, director, agent, servant, or employee acting on behalf of the entities named in subparagraph (a)(1).||(b) The spouse of a return to work program participant entitled to benefits under this chapter, or any other person who might otherwise be entitled to recover damages on account of the participant's personal injury or death, shall have no direct action, either at common law or by statute or otherwise, to recover for such damages against any person identified in this paragraph.||IV. The department of employment security may provide this benefit by appropriate means including purchasing and serving as the master policyholder for any insurance, by self-insurance, or by administrative services contract.||V. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all other provisions of RSA 281-A shall apply.|||Source. 2010, 145:3, eff. June 14, 2010. 2011, 82:2, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:27 - Repealed by 1985, 340:13, I, eff. Aug. 13, 1985.

    282-A:27 Repealed by 1985, 340:13, I, eff. Aug. 13, 1985. –|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:28 - Retirement Pay.

    282-A:28 Retirement Pay. –||I. The maximum weekly benefit amount of any individual who is receiving retirement pay, which means in this section a government or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or any similar periodic payment based on previous work, shall be reduced by an amount equal to such retirement pay or other payment which the commissioner finds can be reasonably said to apply to such week. In the case of such a payment, not made under the Social Security Act or the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, if the base period employer or chargeable employer under RSA 282-A:74 does not contribute to the fund from which such payments are made, this paragraph shall not apply.||II. If the employee contributed 50 percent or more to retirement pay as described in paragraph I, no portion of said payments shall be deducted from the individual's maximum weekly benefit amount. For purposes of this section, the employee's contribution shall be rounded up to the nearest percent.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:8. 1941, 103:12-15. RL 218:2. 1943, 56:5. 1945, 78:1. 1947, 59:7. 1949, 30:1. 1951, 34:2; 140:4-6. 1953, 65:1, 2; 261:2. RSA 282:2(E). 1955, 7:1; 141:7. 1957, 118:2, 3. 1959, 28:1. 1961, 88:7, 8; 228:1. 1963, 194:3, 4. 1965, 208:1. 1967, 400:4. 1969, 460:4. 1971, 156:17, 18. 1973, 589:1, 2. 1975, 393:2. 1977, 441:8. 1981, 408:3. 1983, 368:1; 457:4, 7. 1987, 243:3, eff. July 17, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:29 - Adjustment of Overpaid Benefit Account by Compromise.

    282-A:29 Adjustment of Overpaid Benefit Account by Compromise. –||I. The commissioner may, with the approval of the attorney general, effect by written stipulation such settlement of any overpaid benefit account due under the provisions of this chapter as he or she may deem to be for the best interests of the state; and the payment of the sum so agreed upon shall be a full satisfaction of such overpaid benefit account.||II. Payment by a debtor of interest, penalties, fees, and legal costs due under the provisions of this chapter totaling $50 or less may be waived by the commissioner of the department of employment security as he or she may deem to be for the best interests of the state.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:8. 1941, 103:12-15. RL 218:2. 1943, 56:5. 1945, 78:1. 1947, 59:7. 1949, 30:1. 1951, 34:2; 140:4-6. 1953, 65:1, 2; 261:2. RSA 282:2(G). 1955, 7:1; 141:7. 1957, 118:2, 3. 1959, 28:1. 1961, 88:7, 8; 228:1. 1963, 194:3, 4. 1965, 208:1. 1967, 400:4. 1969, 460:4. 1971, 156:17, 18. 1973, 589:1, 2. 1975, 393:2. 1981, 408:3. 2003, 116:17, eff. Aug. 8, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-a - Definitions.

    282-A:31-a Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Affected unit" means a specified plant, department, shift, or other definable unit consisting of no fewer than 2 employees to which an approved worksharing plan applies.||II. "Employee" means any individual employed full-time or on a permanent part-time basis by any employer subject to this chapter and in employment subject thereto.||III. "Fringe benefits" include, but are not limited to, health insurance, retirement benefits, paid vacation and holidays, sick leave, and similar advantages which are incidents of employment.||IV. "Normal weekly hours of work" mean the normal number of hours of work each week for an employee in an affected unit when that unit is operating on a full-time basis, not to exceed 40 hours and not including overtime.||V. "Unemployment benefits" or "regular benefits" mean benefits payable under RSA 282-A:3 other than worksharing benefits and includes any amounts payable pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for compensation, assistance, or allowances with respect to unemployment.||VI. "Worksharing benefits" mean the benefits payable to employees in an affected unit under an approved worksharing plan.||VII. "Worksharing employer" means an employer with an approved worksharing plan in effect.||VIII. "Worksharing plan" means a plan of an employer under which there is a reduction in the number of hours worked by the employees in an affected unit, and the affected employees share the work remaining after the normal weekly hours of work are reduced.|||Source. 2010, 28:1, eff. May 11, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-c - Eligibility.

    282-A:31-c Eligibility. –||I. An individual shall be eligible to receive worksharing benefits, subsequent to serving a waiting period as prescribed by the commissioner, with respect to any week only if, in addition to meeting the other conditions of eligibility for regular benefits under this chapter which are not inconsistent with this section, the commissioner finds that:||(a) The individual is employed as a member of an affected unit under an approved worksharing plan that is in effect; and||(b) The individual is able to work and is available for the normal weekly hours of work with the worksharing employer.||II. No otherwise eligible affected individual shall be denied worksharing benefits for any week by reason of the application of provisions relating to availability for work, active search for work, or applying for or accepting suitable work with other than the worksharing employer.||III. An individual shall be eligible to receive worksharing benefits in any week for which remuneration is payable to him or her as an employee in an affected unit for less than the employee's normal weekly hours of work as specified under the approved worksharing plan in effect for that week.||IV. An individual who is not eligible to receive unemployment benefits by reason of the application of RSA 282-A:28, I shall not be eligible to receive worksharing benefits.||V. Eligible employees may participate, as appropriate, in training (including employer-sponsored training or worker training funded under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014) to enhance job skills if such program has been approved by the commissioner.|||Source. 2010, 28:1, eff. May 11, 2010. 2013, 210:2, eff. Sept. 8, 2013. 2016, 249:1, eff. June 10, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-d - Benefits Payable.

    282-A:31-d Benefits Payable. –||I. The weekly worksharing benefit amount payable to an affected individual shall be the product of the regular weekly benefit amount, as defined in RSA 282-A:25 multiplied by the percentage reduction in the individual's normal weekly hours of work, rounded to the next lower full dollar amount. The weekly worksharing benefit amount shall not be reduced by reason of application of the provisions of RSA 282-A:26 to remuneration received from the worksharing employer. If in any week an individual performs services for a worksharing employer and an employer other than the worksharing employer, the weekly worksharing benefit amount shall be reduced by the amount by which the remuneration received from the non-worksharing employer exceeds 30 percent of the maximum benefit rate in effect.||II. The total worksharing benefit amount payable to an affected individual during any benefit year shall not exceed the amount of total benefits calculated under RSA 282-A:25 minus the amount of regular and worksharing benefits paid to said individual under this chapter.||III. An individual who has received all the worksharing benefits or the combined regular benefits and worksharing benefits available in a benefit year shall be considered an exhaustee for purposes of extended benefits under RSA 282-A:30 and for any special federal extended benefits program, and, if otherwise eligible, shall be permitted to receive extended benefits and special federal extended benefits.||IV. An individual who performs no services during a week for the worksharing employer and is otherwise eligible shall be paid benefits in accordance with the other provisions of this chapter.||V. Claims for worksharing benefits shall be filed by the worksharing employer or as otherwise prescribed by the commissioner.||VI. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter relating to charges, all worksharing benefits shall be charged to the account of the worksharing employer. Benefits paid under this section shall be charges to the employer's account in the same manner as regular benefits are charged, except that, if the employer pays contributions in accordance with RSA 282-A:87, Schedules II and III, the employer shall be charged and billed as if it had elected to make payments in lieu of contributions under RSA 282-A:70.||VII. Except where inconsistent with the provisions of this section, the provisions of this chapter, including the rules and regulations adopted under this chapter, shall apply to benefits under this section.|||Source. 2010, 28:1, eff. May 11, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-e - Conformance With Minimum Standards.

    282-A:31-e Conformance With Minimum Standards. –||I. In the event that the Congress of the United States should pass any legislation, or the Secretary of Labor of the United States shall issue any regulation, establishing certain minimum standards for eligibility for 100 percent reimbursement, the commissioner of the department of employment security, or the commissioner's duly authorized representative, is hereby authorized to make such revision as may be necessary to cause this section to conform with such minimum standards. If any of the provisions of this section or the application thereof to any persons or circumstances are held invalid, the remainder of this section and the application of this section to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.||II. In the event that any provision in this section fails to be approved by the Secretary of Labor of the United States under section 3306(v)(10), FUTA, such provision shall be severed here from, and the validity of the remainder of this section shall not be affected thereby.|||Source. 2010, 28:1, eff. May 11, 2010. 2013, 210:3, eff. Sept. 8, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-f - Suspension or Termination of Program.

    282-A:31-f Suspension or Termination of Program. –||The commissioner, with the consent of the advisory council on unemployment compensation, may suspend or terminate the operation of the worksharing program if, at any time, he or she determines that such action would be in the best interests of the state of New Hampshire.|||Source. 2010, 28:1, eff. May 11, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-g (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-g - Definitions.

    282-A:31-g Definitions. –||In the subdivision:||I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of employment security.||II. "Department" means the department of employment security.||III. "Self-employment assistance activities" means activities approved by the commissioner in which an individual participates for the purpose of establishing a business and becoming self-employed. "Self-employment assistance activities" shall include entrepreneurial training, business counseling, and technical assistance.||IV. "Self-employment assistance allowance" means an allowance payable, in lieu of regular benefits, from the unemployment compensation trust fund to an individual who meets the requirements of this subdivision.||V. "Self-employment assistance program" means a program under which an individual who meets the requirements of RSA 282-A:31-h, II is eligible to receive an allowance in lieu of regular benefits for the purpose of assisting that individual in establishing a business and becoming self-employed.||VI. "Regular benefits" means benefits payable to an individual under this chapter, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to former members of the United States Armed Forces pursuant to the United States Code, Chapter 85, other than additional benefits, extended benefits, and extended benefits for dislocated workers.|||Source. 2013, 218:1, eff. July 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:33 - Temporary Self-Employment.

    282-A:33 Temporary Self-Employment. –||No individual shall be ineligible for benefits or disqualified for benefits solely because he has engaged in temporary self-employment without intending to establish a business while otherwise unemployed if he continues to seek employment after completion of such temporary self-employment endeavor.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:10-12. 1941, 103:17-20. RL 218:4. 1945, 138:9, 10. 1947, 59:12, 13. 1949, 185:5, 6. 1953, 209:2, 3; 260:1; 261:3. RSA 282:4(A)(4). 1955, 4:1; 141:9. 1957, 118:4, 5. 1959, 28:2, 3. 1963, 194:5. 1965, 208:3-5. 1967, 75:1; 400:8, 9. 1969, 460:6, 7. 1971, 156:20, 21, 36, 37. 1973, 446:2; 589:3, 4. 1977, 441:18, 19. 1979, 348:12. 1981, 408:3, eff. Oct. 1, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:34 - Intoxication; Drugs; Theft.

    282-A:34 Intoxication;  Drugs;  Theft. –||I. An unemployed individual who has been discharged for intoxication or use of controlled drugs as defined in RSA 318-B:1, VI, of such degree and rate of occurrence as to seriously hamper or interfere with the individual's work, shall be disqualified for benefits. Such disqualification shall continue until a period of not less than 4 weeks nor more than 26 weeks from the date of discharge, as may be determined by the commissioner, has passed and until such individual has earned wages as provided in RSA 282-A:32, I.||II. An unemployed individual who has been discharged for a single theft or multiple thefts in the aggregate of an amount greater than $100 but less than $250, where such conduct is connected with his or her work, shall be disqualified for benefits. Such disqualification shall continue until a period of not less than 4 weeks nor more than 26 weeks from the date of discharge, as may be determined by the commissioner, has passed and until such individual has earned wages as provided in RSA 282-A:32, I.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:10-12. 1941, 103:17-20. RL 218:4. 1945, 138:9, 10. 1947, 59:12, 13. 1949, 185:5, 6. 1953, 209:2, 3; 260:1; 261:3. RSA 282:4(C). 1955, 4:1; 141:9. 1957, 118:4, 5. 1959, 28:2, 3. 1963, 194:5. 1965, 208:3-5. 1967, 75:1; 400:8, 9. 1969, 460:6, 7. 1971, 156:20, 21, 36, 37. 1973, 446:2; 589:3, 4. 1981, 408:3, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; 416:7, eff. April 4, 1981. 2011, 254:2, eff. Sept. 11, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:35 - Gross Misconduct.

    282-A:35 Gross Misconduct. –||An unemployed individual who has been discharged for arson, sabotage, felony, assault which causes bodily injury, criminal threatening, or a single theft or multiple thefts in the aggregate of an amount equal to or greater than $250, where such conduct is connected with his or her work, shall suffer the loss of all wage credits earned prior to the date of such dismissal.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:10-12. 1941, 103:17-20. RL 218:4. 1945, 138:9, 10. 1947, 59:12, 13. 1949, 185:5, 6. 1953, 209:2, 3; 260:1; 261:3. RSA 282:4(D). 1955, 4:1; 141:9. 1957, 118:4, 5. 1959, 28:2, 3. 1963, 194:5. 1965, 208:3-5. 1967, 75:1; 400:8, 9. 1969, 460:6, 7. 1971, 156:20, 21, 36, 37. 1973, 446:2; 589:3, 4. 1981, 408:3. 2006, 130:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2007. 2010, 275:1, eff. Sept. 6, 2010. 2011, 254:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:36 - Labor Dispute.

    282-A:36 Labor Dispute. –||A person shall be disqualified for benefits for any week with respect to which the commissioner finds that his or her total or partial unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which he or she is or was last employed; provided that this section shall not apply if it is shown to the satisfaction of the commissioner that:||I. (a) The person is not participating in or financing or directly interested in the labor dispute which caused the stoppage of work; and||(b) The person does not belong to a grade or class of workers of which, immediately before the commencement of the stoppage, there were members employed at the premises at which the stoppage occurs, any of whom are participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute; provided that, if in any case separate branches of work which are commonly conducted as separate businesses in separate premises are conducted in separate departments of the same premises, each such department shall, for the purposes of this subsection, be deemed to be a separate factory, establishment, or other premises; or||II. The person has become unemployed and entitled to unemployment compensation before the commencement of the labor dispute and his connection with the employer has been totally severed, including the absence of recall rights, seniority rights and other fringe benefits and indicia of employment; or||II-a. The stoppage of work was due solely to a lockout or the failure of the employer to live up to the provision of any agreement or contract of employment entered into between the employer and his or her employees; or||III. The stoppage of work has continued for a period of 2 weeks after the termination of the labor dispute; or||IV. The person has, since becoming unemployed for the reasons set forth in the introductory paragraph worked in 5 or more weeks in employment as defined in RSA 282-A:9, except RSA 282-A:9, IV(f), or wages earned in a like manner in another state, earning in each week an amount at least equal to such person's maximum benefit rate plus 20 percent thereof, and then becomes unemployed from said employer due to a lack of work.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:10-12. 1941, 103:17-20. RL 218:4. 1945, 138:9, 10. 1947, 59:12, 13. 1949, 185:5, 6. 1953, 209:2, 3; 260:1; 261:3. RSA 282:4(F). 1955, 4:1; 141:9. 1957, 118:4, 5. 1959, 28:2, 3. 1963, 194:5. 1965, 208:3-5. 1967, 75:1; 400:8, 9. 1969, 460:6, 7. 1971, 156:20, 21, 36, 37. 1973, 446:2; 589:3, 4. 1979, 348:13. 1981, 408:3. 1983, 368:2. 2003, 116:7, eff. Aug. 8, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 282-A:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:37 - Federal Unemployment Compensation.

    282-A:37 Federal Unemployment Compensation. –||An individual shall be disqualified for benefits for any week or part of a week with respect to which he is seeking to receive or has received payments in the form of unemployment compensation, or payments supplementary to New Hampshire unemployment compensation, under any law of the federal government; provided, however, that there shall be no disqualification for seeking to receive or receiving unemployment compensation, or supplementary payments, under Chapter 85 of Title V of the United States Code.|||Source. 1937, 178:1. 1939, 138:10-12. 1941, 103:17-20. RL 218:4. 1945, 138:9, 10. 1947, 59:12, 13. 1949, 185:5, 6. 1953, 209:2, 3; 260:1; 261:3. RSA 282:4(G). 1955, 4:1; 141:9. 1957, 118:4, 5. 1959, 28:2, 3. 1963, 194:5. 1965, 208:3-5. 1967, 75:1; 400:8, 9. 1969, 460:6, 7. 1971, 156:20, 21, 36, 37. 1973, 446:2; 589:3, 4. 1977, 441:13. 1981, 408:3, eff. Oct. 1, 1981.|