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VA Code § 60.2-111 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-111. Duties and powers of Commission

A. It shall be the duty of the Commission to administer this title. It shall have power and authority to adopt, amend, or rescind such rules and regulations, to employ such persons, make such expenditures, require such reports, make such investigations, and take such other action, including the appointment of advisory groups, as it deems necessary or suitable to that end. Such rules and regulations shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 40 (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) of Title 2.2, except as to the subject matter of subdivisions 2 and 3 of § 60.2-515, which shall become effective in the manner prescribed by § 2.2-4103. The Commission shall determine its own organization and methods of procedure in accordance with provisions of this title, and shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed.B. The Commission shall prepare an annual balance sheet of the moneys in the fund and in the Unemployment Trust Fund to the credit of the Commonwealth in which there shall be provided, if possible, a reserve against the liability in future years to pay benefits in excess of the then current taxes. That reserve shall be set up by the Commission in accordance with accepted actuarial principles on the basis of statistics of employment, business activity, and other relevant factors for the longest possible period. Whenever the Commission believes that a change in tax or benefit rates is necessary to protect the solvency of the Fund, it shall promptly so inform the Governor and the General Assembly and make recommendations with respect thereto.Code 1950, § 60-29; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-34; 1977, c. 445; 1984, c. 734; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-113 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-113. Employment stabilization

The Commission shall take all necessary steps through its appropriate divisions and with the advice of such advisory boards and committees as it may have to:1. Establish a viable labor exchange system to promote maximum employment for the Commonwealth of Virginia with priority given to those workers drawing unemployment benefits;2. Provide Virginia State Job Service services, as described in this title, according to the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49f), as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act;3. Maintain a solvent trust fund financed through equitable employer taxes that provide temporary partial income replacement to involuntarily unemployed covered workers;4. Coordinate and conduct labor market information research studies, programs and operations, including the development, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information on the social and economic aspects of the Commonwealth and publish data needed by employers, economic development, education and training entities, government and other users in the public and private sectors;5. Encourage and assist in the adoption of practical methods of vocational guidance, training and retraining; and6. Establish the Interagency Migrant Worker Policy Committee, comprised of representatives from appropriate state agencies, including the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, whose services and jurisdictions involve migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their employees. All agencies of the Commonwealth shall be required to cooperate with the Committee upon request.Code 1950, § 60-34; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-39; 1986, c. 480; 1989, c. 108; 1999, c. 357; 2004, cc. 14, 154, 592; 2008, cc. 98, 222; 2011, cc. 594, 681; 2014, c. 815; 2015, cc. 275, 292; 2017, c. 20; 2018, c. 225.
VA Code § 60.2-113.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-113.1. Veterans Skills Database

A. The Commission, in cooperation with the Secretary of Commerce and Trade and the Department of Veterans Services, shall establish the Veterans Skills Database (the database), an Internet-accessible database of veterans and their workforce skills, for the purpose of marketing and promoting the workforce skills of veterans to potential employers.B. The Commission may contract with one or more third parties to develop, implement, and maintain the database. The database provider shall (i) maintain the database and (ii) take all actions to ensure the protection of the confidentiality and security of the information contained in the database in accordance with the requirements established by the Commission.C. The following provisions shall apply to the database:1. Any veteran may register to create a free profile on the database and supply information relating to his workforce skills and experience.2. Potential employers may register to create a free profile and access the database to identify potential employees with relevant workforce skills and experience.2010, c. 277.
VA Code § 60.2-115 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-115. State-federal cooperation

A. In the administration of this title, the Commission shall cooperate with the United States Department of Labor to the fullest extent consistent with the provisions of this title. The Commission shall make such reports, in such form and containing such information as the United States Department of Labor may require, and shall comply with such provisions as the United States Department of Labor may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports. The Commission shall take such action, through the adoption of appropriate rules, regulations, administrative methods and standards, as may be necessary to secure to this Commonwealth and its citizens all advantages available under the provisions of the Social Security Act that relate to unemployment compensation, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. § 49 et seq.), and the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act (See notes following 26 U.S.C. § 3304).B. In the administration of the provisions in §§ 60.2-610 and 60.2-611, which are enacted to conform with the requirements of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act (See notes following 26 U.S.C. § 3304), the Commission shall take such action as may be necessary (i) to ensure that the provisions are so interpreted and applied as to meet the requirements of such federal act as interpreted by the United States Department of Labor, and (ii) to secure to this Commonwealth the full reimbursement of the federal share of extended benefits paid under this title that are reimbursable under the federal act.C. The Commission shall further make its records available to the Railroad Retirement Board and shall furnish to the Railroad Retirement Board at the expense of the Railroad Retirement Board, such copies thereof as the Board shall deem necessary for its purposes in accordance with the provisions of § 303 (c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 503 (c)).D. The Commission shall afford reasonable cooperation with every agency of the United States charged with the administration of any unemployment insurance law.E. Upon request therefor, the Commission shall furnish to any agency of the United States charged with the administration of public works or assistance through public employment, the name, address, ordinary occupation, and employment status of each recipient of benefits and such recipient's rights to further benefits under this title.Code 1950, § 60-39; 1956, c. 440; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-44; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 235; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-117 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-117. Use of collections in financing administrative expenditures

If § 303 (a) (5) of Title III of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 503 (a) (5)) and § 3304 (a) (4) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.) are amended to permit a state agency to use, in partial or complete substitution for grants under such Title III, for financing administrative expenditures incurred in carrying out its employment security functions, some part of the moneys collected or to be collected under the state unemployment compensation law, this title shall, by Commission proclamation and rules to be issued with the Governor's approval, be modified in the manner and to the extent and within the limits necessary to permit such use by the Commission under this title. Such modifications shall become effective on the same date as such use becomes permissible under such federal amendments.Code 1950, § 60-64; 1956, c. 440; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-76; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-118 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-118. Civil action to enforce title; actions on behalf of other states

A. In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this title the Commission and the Commonwealth may be represented by the Office of the Attorney General.B. The Office of the Attorney General may commence actions in this Commonwealth as agent for, or on behalf of, any other state:1. To enforce judgments and liability for unemployment insurance taxes due such other state; or2. To collect unemployment benefit overpayments of such state if such state extends like comity to this Commonwealth.C. Venue for such actions shall be the same as for actions to enforce the provisions of this title.Code 1950, § 60-109; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-126; 1972, c. 764; 1977, c. 445; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-119 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-119. Criminal cases

All criminal actions for violation of any provision of this title, or of any rules or regulations issued pursuant to this title, shall be prosecuted by the attorney for the Commonwealth of the county or city in which the offense, or a part thereof, was committed, except that the offense set out in § 60.2-518 or 60.2-632 shall be deemed to be committed and venue for the prosecution shall lie in the county or city wherein the statement, representation, or nondisclosure is received by the Commission. However, if a defendant resides in this Commonwealth and the courthouse of the county or city in which he resides is more than 100 miles from the City of Richmond, venue for such prosecution shall lie in the city or county where he resides, and the offense shall be prosecuted by the attorney for the Commonwealth for the city or county where the defendant resides. If, in the opinion of the Commission, the prosecution should be conducted by the Office of the Attorney General, that office, upon the request of the Commission, shall have authority to conduct or supervise such prosecution.Code 1950, § 60-110; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-127; 1972, c. 764; 1980, c. 674; 1986, c. 480; 2005, c. 105.
VA Code § 60.2-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-120. Reimbursement of expenses of Office of Attorney General

The compensation of the assistant attorneys general, together with their proper expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, shall be chargeable as administrative expense of the Commission and paid in the manner in which the compensation and expenses of employees of the Commission are paid.Code 1950, § 60-111; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-128; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-121. Violation of title or rule or regulation

Any person who willfully violates any provision of this title or any valid rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to it, for which a penalty is not provided, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Each day that such violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense.Code 1950, § 60-114; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-131; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-121.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-121.1. Communications with parties

In any action commenced under this title, the Commission may, if the party elects, send notices and other communications to such party through email or other electronic means. The Commission shall allow any party to change its election regarding receiving communications through electronic means. If an electronic notice is not successfully transmitted through electronic means, the Commission shall send a new notice by first-class mail to the party's alternative address on record.2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 290.
VA Code § 60.2-122 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-122. Limitation of fees

No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees of any kind in any proceeding under this title by the Commission or its representatives. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for each such offense, be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.Code 1950, § 60-107; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-124; 1981, c. 249; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 1 - General Provisions and Administration|§ 60.2-123. Representation

Any individual or employing unit appearing before an officer of the Commission may be represented by counsel or other duly authorized agent. However, no such counsel or agent representing a claimant shall either charge or receive for such services more than an amount approved by the Commission.1981, c. 249, § 60.1-124.1; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-200 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-200. Definitions generally

As used in this title, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the terms defined in this chapter shall have the meanings there ascribed to them.Code 1950, § 60-2; 1964, c. 3; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-2; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-201 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-201. Agricultural labor

A. The term "agricultural labor" includes all service performed:1. On a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife.2. In the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a farm, in connection with the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or maintenance of such farm and its tools and equipment, or in salvaging timber or clearing land of brush and other debris left by a hurricane, if the major part of such service is performed on a farm.3. In connection with the production or harvesting of any commodity defined as an agricultural commodity in 12 U.S.C. § 1141 j of the Federal Agricultural Marketing Act, or in connection with the ginning of cotton, or in connection with the operation or maintenance of ditches, canals, reservoirs, or waterways not owned or operated for profit used exclusively for supplying and storing water for farming purposes.4. a. In the employ of the operator of a farm in handling, planting, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading, storing, or delivering to storage or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, in its unmanufactured state, any such agricultural or horticultural commodity; but only if such operator produced more than one-half of the commodity with respect to which such service is performed;b. In the employ of a group of operators of farms (or a cooperative organization of which such operators are members) in the performance of service described in subdivision 4 a of this subsection, but only if such operators produced more than one-half of the commodity with respect to which such service is performed;c. The provisions of subdivisions 4 a and 4 b of this section shall not be deemed to be applicable with respect to service performed in connection with commercial canning or commercial freezing or in connection with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market for distribution for consumption.5. On a farm operated for profit if such service is not in the course of the employer's trade or business or is domestic service in a private home of the employer.B. As used in this section, the term "farm" includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animal and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities and orchards.Code 1950, § 60-3; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-3; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 235; 1972, c. 764; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-202 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-202. Annual payroll

Annual payroll means the total amount of wages payable by an employer, regardless of the time of payment, for employment during a calendar year.Code 1950, § 60-4; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-4; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-203 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-203. Average annual payroll

Average annual payroll means the average of the annual payrolls of any employer for the last three or five preceding calendar years, whichever is higher.Code 1950, § 60-5; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-5; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-204 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-204. Base period

Base period means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of the claimant's benefit year; however, if the claimant has earned insufficient wages in the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters to become eligible for benefits, then such claimant's "base period" shall be the four most recent completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of the claimant's benefit year.Code 1950, § 60-6.1; 1956, c. 440; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-6; 1974, c. 466; 1986, c. 480; 2003, c. 383.
VA Code § 60.2-205 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-205. Benefits

Benefits means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this title, with respect to his unemployment.Code 1950, § 60-7; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-7; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-206 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-206. Benefit year

Benefit year with respect to any individual means a period of fifty-two consecutive weeks beginning with the first day of the week in which an individual files a new valid claim for benefits except that the benefit year shall be fifty-three weeks if filing of a new valid claim would result in overlapping any quarter of the base period of a previously filed new claim. An initial claim for benefits filed in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commission under the provisions of this title shall be deemed to be a valid claim within the purposes of this definition if the individual has been paid wages in his base period sufficient to make him eligible for benefits under the provisions of Chapter 6 (§ 60.2-600 et seq.) of this title.Code 1950, § 60-8.1; 1956, c. 440; 1964, c. 3; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-8; 1974, c. 466; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-207 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-207. Calendar quarter

Calendar quarter means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, or the equivalent thereof, as the Commission may by regulation prescribe.Code 1950, § 60-9; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-9; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-208 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-208. Commission

Commission means the Virginia Employment Commission. Wherever in this Code, or any act of the General Assembly the term "Unemployment Compensation Commission" is used, it shall mean the Virginia Employment Commission.Code 1950, § 60-10; 1960, c. 136; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-10; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-209 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-209. Taxes

Taxes means the money imposed by and collectible under this title and includes payments in lieu of taxes collectible under §§ 60.2-501 through 60.2-507.Code 1950, § 60-11; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-11; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 235; 1986, c. 480.
VA Code § 60.2-211 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 60.2 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 2 - Definitions|§ 60.2-211. Employing unit

A. "Employing unit" means any of the following which has or had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this Commonwealth:1. Any individual or type of organization, including the state government and its instrumentalities;2. Any of the political subdivisions of this Commonwealth and their instrumentalities;3. Any instrumentalities wholly owned (i) by this Commonwealth and one or more political subdivisions, (ii) by a combination of political subdivisions or (iii) by any of the foregoing and one or more other states or their political subdivisions;4. Any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor thereof; or5. The legal representative of a deceased person.B. All individuals performing services within this Commonwealth for any employing unit which maintains two or more separate establishments within this Commonwealth shall be deemed to be employed by a single employing unit for all the purposes of this title. Whenever any employing unit contracts with any person for any service which is a part of such employing unit's usual trade, occupation, profession or business, that employing unit shall be deemed to employ all individuals employed by such person for such service unless such person performs service or is in fact actually available to perform service for anyone who may wish to contract with him and is also found to be engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business. Each individual employed to perform or to assist in performing the work of any agent or employee of an employing unit shall be deemed to be employed by such employing unit for all the purposes of this title, whether such individual was hired or paid directly by such employing unit or by such agent or employee, provided the employing unit had actual or constructive knowledge of such work.Code 1950, § 60-13; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-13; 1974, cc. 466, 660; 1977, c. 330; 1986, c. 480.