California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 1 - Employment Development Department › Subdivision 1 - Director of Employment Development › Division 1 - Unemployment and Disability Compensation › Part 1 - Unemployment Compensation › Chapter 5 - UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS › Article 1 - ELIGIBILITY AND DISQUALIFICATIONS › Section 1253(e)-1 - Effort to Search for Suitable Work

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) A claimant is ineligible for unemployment
						  compensation benefits for any period for which the department finds that he or
						  she has not made a reasonable effort to search for suitable work on his or her
						  own behalf in accordance with specific and reasonable instructions of a public
						  employment office. The department shall provide to each claimant written
						  information and assistance, and upon request of a claimant or upon
						  identification by the department of a claimant's need, additional oral
						  information and assistance, as to how, when, where, and in what manner to apply
						  for and look for a job. The facts and circumstances in each case shall be
						  considered in determining whether a claimant has made a reasonable effort to
						  search for suitable work. The claimant shall be required to show that he or she
						  has, in addition to registering for work pursuant to Section
						  1253(b) -
						  1 of these regulations, followed a
						  course of action which is reasonably designed to result in his or her prompt
						  reemployment in suitable work, considering the customary methods of obtaining
						  work in his or her usual occupation or for which he or she is reasonably
						  suited, and the current condition of the labor market. The following are
						  examples of actions by a claimant which may be considered a reasonable effort
						  for a claimant to search for suitable work on his or her own behalf:
(1) Making application with such employers
						  who may reasonably be expected to have openings suitable to the
						  claimant.
(2) Applying for
						  employment with former employers.
(3) Registering with the claimant's union
						  hiring or placement facility, and meeting all union dispatching calls and union
						  registration requirements and all other union requirements affecting dispatch
						  to a job. The department may find that this action alone is an adequate search
						  for suitable work for particular claimants.
(4) Making application or taking examination
						  for openings in the civil service of a governmental unit with reasonable
						  prospects of suitable work for the claimant.
(5) Registering with a placement facility of
						  a school, college, or university if one is available to the claimant in his or
						  her occupation or profession.
(6)
						  Registering with a placement facility of the claimant's professional
						  organization.
(7) Registering for
						  suitable work with a private employment agency or an employer's placement
						  facility.
(8) Responding to
						  appropriate "want ads" for work which is suitable to the
						  claimant.