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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 230 - Alternate Base Period › Section 31-230-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 31-230-1 to
				31-230-4,
				inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Administrator" means the Labor
			 Commissioner of the State of Connecticut, whose mailing address is 200 Folly
			 Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109, or his designated
			 representative.
(2) "Alternate base
			 period" means the four most recently completed calendar quarters prior to the
			 individual's benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously used to
			 establish a prior valid benefit year, except that for any such individual who
			 is eligible to receive or is receiving workers' compensation or who is properly
			 absent from work under the terms of an employer's sick leave or disability
			 leave policy, the base period shall be the four most recently worked calendar
			 quarters prior to such benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously
			 used to establish a prior valid benefit year and, provided further, the last
			 most recently worked calendar quarter is not more than twelve calendar quarters
			 prior to the date such individual makes the initiating claim.
(3) "Benefits" means unemployment
			 compensation payable to an individual with respect to his unemployment under
			 Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(4) "Benefit year" means the period
			 commencing with the beginning of the week with respect to which an individual
			 has filed a valid initiating claim and continuing through the Saturday of the
			 fifty-first week following the week in which it commenced, provided no benefit
			 year shall end until after the end of the third complete calendar quarter, plus
			 the remainder of any uncompleted calendar week which began in such quarter,
			 following the calendar quarter in which it commenced.
(5) "Regular base period" means the first
			 four of the five most recently completed calendar quarters prior to an
			 individual's benefit year, provided such quarters were not previously used to
			 establish a prior valid benefit year, except that for any individual who is
			 eligible to receive or is receiving or had received workers' compensation, or
			 who is or had been properly absent from work under the terms of his employer's
			 sick leave or disability leave policy, the base period shall be the first four
			 of the five most recently worked quarters prior to such benefit year, provided
			 such quarters were not previously used to establish a prior valid benefit year
			 and, provided further, the last most recently worked calendar quarter is not
			 more than twelve calendar quarters prior to the date such individual makes his
			 initiating claim.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 230 - Alternate Base Period › Section 31-230-2 - Alternate base period determinations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) When the
			 Administrator determines that an individual is ineligible for benefits using
			 his regular base period, the Administrator shall determine whether the
			 individual is eligible for benefits using an alternate base period. The
			 Administrator shall not require the individual to initiate a request for a
			 determination of eligibility using an alternate base period in such
			 cases.
(b) The Administrator shall
			 ascertain from any individual who is ineligible for benefits using his regular
			 base period whether he was paid wages during the most recent completed calendar
			 quarter in his alternate base period.
(c) Where wages paid to the individual during
			 the most recent completed calendar quarter have already been reported by an
			 employer to the Administrator and can be identified on the Administrator's
			 automated wage files, the Administrator shall promptly issue a written
			 determination of eligibility or ineligibility for benefits using the
			 individual's alternate base period.
(d) Where wages paid to the individual during
			 the most recent completed calendar quarter cannot be identified on the
			 Administrator's automated wage files, the Administrator shall institute an
			 investigation and contact the employer or the employer's agent directly to
			 secure the requested wage information. The Administrator shall exercise such
			 administrative and investigative powers as are authorized under Chapter 567 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes and are necessary to accurately establish the
			 correct amount of wages paid to the individual during the subject
			 quarter.
(e) Once all wages paid to
			 the individual during the most recent completed calendar quarter have been
			 established pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, the Administrator shall
			 promptly issue a written determination of eligibility or ineligibility for
			 benefits using the individual's alternate base period.
(f) Any determination issued pursuant to this
			 section shall specify:
(1) the individual's
			 benefit year;
(2) the individual's
			 alternate base period;
(3) wages
			 paid to the individual during his alternate base period;
(4) employers who paid such wages during the
			 individual's alternate base period;
(5) the individual's total unemployment
			 benefit rate pursuant to section
			 31-231a
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(6) the individual's maximum limitation on
			 total benefits pursuant to section
			 31-231b
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(7) the individual's dependency allowance, if
			 any, pursuant to section
			 31-234 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes; and
(8) the individual's appeal rights.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 230 - Alternate Base Period › Section 31-230-3 - Notice of alternate base period program

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any
			 determination issued under section
			 31-230-2
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall clearly inform the
			 individual that eligibility or ineligibility was determined using an alternate
			 base period.
(b) The Administrator
			 shall inform any individual when his determination of eligibility using an
			 alternate base period is being delayed pending establishment of wages in the
			 most recent calendar quarter.
(c)
			 The Administrator shall provide information, which explains that individuals
			 who are ineligible for benefits using a regular base period may be eligible
			 using an alternate base period, in those publications and other media which the
			 Administrator customarily uses to communicate information about the
			 unemployment compensation program to claimants, employers and the general
			 public.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 231a - Compensation Weekly Benefit Rate for Construction Workers › Section 31-231a-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 31-231a-1 to
				31-231a-4,
				inclusive, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Administrator" means the Labor
			 Commissioner of the State of Connecticut, whose mailing address is 200 Folly
			 Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109, or his designated
			 representative.
(2) "Benefits"
			 means unemployment compensation payable to an individual with respect to his
			 unemployment under Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(3) "Classification Code" means a code
			 contained in the Classification Codes and Statistical Codes Manual published by
			 the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Incorporated (NCCI).
(4) "Construction Worker" means any
			 individual whose classification code is contained in Schedule 26 or Schedule 27
			 of the Classification Codes and Statistical Codes Manual published by the
			 National Council on Compensation Insurance, Incorporated (NCCI) generally
			 utilized for workers' compensation and employer liability insurance
			 purposes.
(5) "Employer" means the
			 employer for whom the individual most recently worked prior to establishing a
			 benefit year which commenced on or after April 1, 1996.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 231a - Compensation Weekly Benefit Rate for Construction Workers › Section 31-231a-2 - Total unemployment benefit rate calculation for a construction worker

Current through July 10, 2024
For a construction worker, the total unemployment benefit rate
				for the individual's benefit year commencing on or after April 1, 1996 shall be
				an amount equal to one twenty-sixth, rounded to the next lower dollar, of the
				total wages paid during that quarter of the current benefit year's base period
				in which wages were the highest, but not less than fifteen dollars nor more
				than the maximum benefit rate as provided in subsection (b) of Section
				31-231a
				of the general statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 231a - Compensation Weekly Benefit Rate for Construction Workers › Section 31-231a-3 - Identification of construction workers

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Pursuant to the
			 provisions of Connecticut Agencies Regulations Section
			 31-222-9(1),
			 the information provided by an employer on an unemployment notice given to a
			 construction worker must contain the individual's classification code to which
			 the majority of hours worked were charged in the most recent pay period
			 preceding the issuance of such notice.
(b) In cases where the employer fails to
			 provide the individual's classification code, and the individual indicates that
			 he is a construction worker, the Administrator may take any action he deems
			 necessary and appropriate to obtain the classification code from the employer.
			 This may include appropriate reliance upon the Administrator's records which
			 indicate the individual's prior classification code assigned when the
			 individual initiated a previous benefit year.
(c) In cases where the employer fails to
			 provide the individual's classification code the Administrator shall obtain
			 sufficient information from the individual on which to conclude whether the
			 individual is a construction worker. Where the Administrator determines that an
			 individual is a construction worker, he shall assign to the individual that
			 classification code which he is best able to ascertain is the correct
			 code.
(d) In determining whether an
			 individual is or is not a construction worker under this section, the
			 Administrator shall consider the individual's most recent employment prior to
			 establishing a benefit year.
(1) However, the
			 Administrator may disregard any non-construction worker employment where such
			 employment relationship:
(A) existed for
			 thirty or less calendar days following the individual's separation from
			 employment as a construction worker; or
(B) was intended to be temporary in nature,
			 and provided the individual was a construction worker subsequent to the
			 beginning of his base period.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 231a - Compensation Weekly Benefit Rate for Construction Workers › Section 31-231a-4 - Notice of determination

Current through July 10, 2024
The determination that an individual's weekly benefit rate is
				based upon his classification as a construction worker shall be contained on
				the Monetary Determination (Form UC-58) issued by the Administrator as a result
				of such classification. The Administrator may invoke his continuing
				jurisdiction under C.G.S. Section
				31-243 in
				order to reconsider an individual's classification as a construction
				worker.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-2 - Benefit eligibility conditions

Current through July 10, 2024
Except as provided in section
				31-235-3
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, an unemployed individual
				shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the
				Administrator finds that:
(1) the
			 individual has made claim for benefits in accordance with the provisions of
			 section
			 31-240 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes and has registered for work at the public
			 employment bureau or other agency designated by the Administrator within such
			 time limits, with such frequency and in such manner as prescribed by the
			 Administrator in section
			 31-222-13
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, provided failure to comply
			 with this condition may be excused by the Administrator upon a showing of good
			 cause, as defined in section
			 31-222-13
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, therefor; and
(2) Notwithstanding sections
			 31-235-6a
			 and
			 31-235-20
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the individual is physically
			 and mentally able to work and is available for work and has been and is making
			 reasonable efforts to obtain work; and
(3) the individual has been paid wages by an
			 employer who was subject to the provisions of Chapter 567 of the Connecticut
			 General Statutes during the base period of the individual's current benefit
			 year in an amount at least equal to forty times the individual's benefit rate
			 for total unemployment.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-3 - Benefit eligibility conditions-involuntary retirees 62 years and older

Current through July 10, 2024
An unemployed individual who is sixty-two years of age or older
				and is involuntarily retired under a compulsory retirement policy or contract
				provision shall be eligible for benefits with respect to any week only if the
				Administrator finds that:
(1) the
			 individual has made claim for benefits in accordance with the provisions of
			 section
			 31-240
			 and has registered for work at the public employment bureau; and
(2) except as provided in section
			 31-235-20,
			 the individual is physically and mentally able to work and is available for
			 work; and
(3) the individual has
			 been paid wages by an employer who was subject to the provisions of chapter 567
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes during the base period of his current
			 benefit year in an amount at least equal to forty times his benefit rate for
			 total unemployment; and
(4) the
			 individual has not refused suitable work to which he has been referred by the
			 Administrator.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-4 - Physically and mentally able to work

Current through July 10, 2024
The Administrator shall find that an individual is physically
				and mentally able to work so long as the individual is capable of performing
				some type of remunerative work. Except as provided in sections
				31-235-6a
				and
				31-235-12
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the Administrator shall find
				that an individual is able to work with respect to a given week if the
				individual is physically and mentally able to work during those days and hours
				which are lawful and customary for the individual's usual occupation or
				industry or other suitable work.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-6 - Availability - general

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Except as
			 provided in section
			 31-235-6a
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, in order to find an
			 individual eligible for benefits for any week, the Administrator must find the
			 individual available for full-time work during that week. An individual is
			 available for work if the individual is genuinely exposed to the labor market.
			 An individual is genuinely exposed to the labor market if such individual is
			 willing, able and ready to accept suitable work.
(b) The Administrator shall find that a labor
			 market exists for an individual, if within a reasonable geographical area,
			 there are jobs for which such individual possesses skills and abilities. The
			 fact that there are more persons in an area qualified for a certain type of job
			 than there are job vacancies does not negate the existence of a labor market
			 for the individual. Restrictions on the type of work an individual is willing
			 to accept shall only render the individual unavailable for work if the
			 Administrator finds that the restriction reduces such individual's prospects
			 for securing employment to such an extent that the individual is no longer
			 genuinely exposed to the labor market.
(c) The Administrator may deny benefits on
			 the basis of restricted availability if the Administrator has first advised and
			 given the individual the opportunity to comply with the requirements of section
			 31-235
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes, except as provided in section
			 31-235-6a
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(d) The Administrator shall afford an
			 individual a reasonable period of time within which to seek employment at such
			 individual's highest skill and wage level. After a reasonable period of time,
			 the Administrator may require the individual to broaden such individual's
			 availability with respect to the type of work and wages the individual is
			 willing to accept.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-6a - Employer's appeal of charges resulting from its nonparticipation in the fact-finding process or in response to a request for information by the Administrator

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions
:
For the purposes of this section, the following definitions
				shall apply:
(1) "Chronic" means a
			 persistent or recurring condition that current medical science can alleviate
			 but not cure;
(2) "Licensed
			 physician" means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy possessing a license under
			 Chapter 370 of the Connecticut General Statutes to practice medicine and
			 surgery in this State;
(3)
			 "Long-term" means a condition that has persisted or is likely to persist for at
			 least twelve months;
(4) "Mental
			 impairment" means a clinically recognized condition or illness that affects a
			 person's thought processes, judgment or emotions;
(5) "Part-time employment" means employment
			 of less than thirty-five hours per calendar week;
(6) "Permanent" means a condition that will
			 last during the lifetime of the individual;
(7) "Physical impairment" means a partial or
			 total loss of bodily function, whether congenital or resulting from injury or
			 disease, whether existing alone or in combination with another physical or
			 mental impairment; and
(8)
			 "Suitable work" means either work in the individual's occupation or field or
			 other work for which the individual is reasonably fitted, provided such work is
			 within a reasonable distance of the individual's residence and is consistent
			 with any medical restrictions imposed by the individual's licensed physician.
			 In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, the
			 Administrator shall consider the degree of risk to the individual's health,
			 safety and morals, the individual's physical and mental fitness and prior
			 training and experience, the individual's skills, the individual's previous
			 wage level and the individual's length of unemployment.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-8 - Distance to work transportation

Current through July 10, 2024
An individual must be available for work within a reasonable
				distance of his residence. In determining whether an individual is available
				for work within a reasonable distance, the Administrator shall consider:
(1) availability of public
			 transportation;
(2) personal means
			 of transportation available to the individual;
(3) common commuting paterns for individuals
			 similarly situated;
(4) the
			 individual's physical condition;
(5) the location of job
			 opportunities.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-9 - Availability - days

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Except as
			 provided in sections
			 31-235-6a
			 and
			 31-235-12
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, an individual must be
			 available for work for those days of the week during which the work for which
			 the individual is suited is customarily performed.
(b) An individual may exclude from the
			 individual's days of availability those days in which such individual's
			 customary occupation or other suitable work is performed only to a minimal
			 extent.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-10 - Availability - hours

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Except as
			 provided in sections
			 31-235-6a
			 and
			 31-235-12
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, an individual must be
			 available for work during such hours as are lawful and customary for the
			 individual's usual occupation or industry or for other suitable work.
(b) An individual may exclude from such
			 individual's hours of availability those hours in which the individual's
			 customary occupation or other suitable work is performed only to a minimal
			 extent.
(c) An individual may
			 exclude from the individual's hours of availability those hours which such
			 individual can demonstrate pose a health risk, provided that exclusion of such
			 hours does not severely restrict the individual's exposure to the labor
			 market.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-11 - Availability during a labor dispute

Current through July 10, 2024
Where an individual has become unemployed as the result of a
				labor dispute, the individual shall comply with the provisions of sections
				31-235-1
				to
				31-235-6,
				inclusive, 31-235-8 to 31-235-20, inclusive, and 31-235-22 and 31-235-23 of the
				Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-12 - Availability - major portion of a benefit week

Current through July 10, 2024
Notwithstanding the provisions of section
				31-235-4,
				section
				31-235-9 and
				section
				31-235-10 of
				the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, and except for the provisions of
				section
				31-235-6a
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the Administrator shall
				consider an individual to be available for work with respect to a given week if
				the individual is available for work during the major portion of the week, so
				long as the individual's restriction on days of availability is not continuing
				in nature.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-13 - Leave of absence

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Where an
			 individual has become unemployed as the result of a leave of absence granted by
			 the individual's employer, the individual must comply with the provisions of
			 sections
			 31-235-1
			 to
			 31-235-26
			 inclusive to be eligible for benefits.
(b) When necessary, the Administrator shall
			 request from the individual's employer any information he needs concerning the
			 leave of absence.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-19 - Availability-patterns of unemployment

Current through July 10, 2024
The Administrator shall not consider an individual's prior
				patterns of unemployment in determining whether he is available for work. For
				the purposes of this section, "pattern of unemployment" means regularly
				recurring periods of unemployment of the claimant in the years prior to his
				filing the claim in question.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-20 - Availability - Student availability

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The
			 Administrator shall not consider an individual to be unavailable for work
			 solely because such individual is attending a school, college or university as
			 a regularly enrolled student, provided the individual has not been found
			 ineligible under the provisions of section
			 31-236(a)(6)
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes. The Administrator shall not consider an
			 individual's efforts to obtain work to be lacking if, as a student, the
			 individual restricts such efforts to full-time employment, or part-time
			 employment provided the individual has satisfied the requirements of section
			 31-235-6a
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, which does not conflict with
			 the individual's regular class hours as a student.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of
			 subsection (a), any individual who is attending a school, college or university
			 as a regularly enrolled full-time student and who has attended a school,
			 college or university as a regularly enrolled full-time student at any time
			 during the two years prior to the individual's date of separation from
			 employment shall be considered by the Administrator to be unavailable for work
			 unless the individual has been employed on a full-time basis for the same
			 two-year period.
(c) For purposes
			 of this section, "school" means an established institution of vocational,
			 academic or technical instruction or education, other than a college or
			 university.
(d) For purposes of
			 this section, "regularly enrolled student" means an individual who has
			 completed all forms and processes required to attend a school, college or
			 university and who will attend prescribed classes at the times they are
			 offered.
(e) For purposes of this
			 section, "regularly enrolled full-time student" means an individual who has
			 registered for sufficient credits to constitute full-time status, as determined
			 by the school, college or university.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-22 - Efforts-general

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The Administrator shall require that for
			 each week for which a claim for benefits is made, an individual shall make
			 reasonable efforts to obtain work. The purpose of the work search requirement
			 is to assist a claimant in obtaining suitable reemployment as expeditiously as
			 possible by bringing the availability of the claimant's skills and aptitudes to
			 the attention of employers.
(b) The
			 Administrator shall deny benefits to an individual on the basis of the
			 individual's failure to make reasonable efforts to obtain work only if the
			 Administrator has determined the individual to be available for suitable work
			 and the individual's efforts to obtain work in a given week were inadequate in
			 terms of quantity, type of work sought or method of work search
			 utilized.
(c) The Administrator
			 shall not deny benefits on the basis of a failure to make reasonable efforts,
			 unless the Administrator has first advised the individual of the requirements
			 of section 31-235 of the Connecticut General Statutes and given the individual
			 an opportunity to comply.
(d) The
			 Administrator shall determine the minimum number of work search efforts
			 required per week based upon factors that include, but are not limited to, an
			 individual's length of unemployment an individual's work search results, local
			 labor markets, and economic conditions.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-23 - Efforts- method of work search; exemptions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The Administrator shall
			 find that a claimant is making adequate efforts to obtain work in any week in
			 which the claimant reports the minimum number of work search efforts prescribed
			 by the Administrator during the week the claimant filed for benefits. The
			 claimant shall certify to the Administrator the required number of work search
			 efforts, one of which shall include a contact with an employer, in a manner
			 prescribed by the Administrator. Failure to provide the required number of
			 valid work search contacts for a week in which a claim is filed or failure to
			 answer fully all questions related to a work search contact provided by the
			 claimant may result in the denial of benefits.
(b) A valid work search activity shall
			 include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) applying to an employer for work, in a
			 manner prescribed by the Administrator, for which the claimant is reasonably
			 suited, based upon prior work experience, skills, knowledge and ability and
			 which will ensure the employer will be able to contact the claimant regarding
			 possible employment;
(2) attending
			 a workshop at an American Job Center;
(3) attending a job fair;
(4) participating in reemployment service
			 activities at an American Job Center;
(5) creating a reemployment plan;
(6) attending a job interview;
(7) creating a resume and uploading the
			 resume to the Connecticut Department of Labor's State Job Bank; or
(8) creating a personal user profile on a
			 professional networking site.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-27 - Participation in profiling and the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) For purposes of this
			 section, the following definitions apply:
(1)
			 "Administrator" means the Labor Commissioner of the State of Connecticut, whose
			 mailing address is 200 Folly Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109,
			 or the Labor Commissioner's designated representative.
(2) "Due diligence" means the actions a
			 reasonable and prudent person would take under similar circumstances.
(3) "Good faith error" means a reason given
			 by an individual who is selected through the profiling model or is associated
			 with a targeted population for failure to participate in the program, which
			 reason is attributable to an honest mistake that does not rise to the level of
			 gross negligence.
(4)
			 "Participation" in a Reemployment Service" means attendance and a good faith
			 effort to participate in and complete a reemployment service.
(5) "Profiling System" means a system
			 designed by the Administrator to identify unemployment compensation benefit
			 recipients who need reemployment services to make a successful transition to
			 new employment.
(6) "Reemployment
			 Service" means a service to which an individual participating in the RESEA
			 program has been referred, which is designed to:
(a) assess the individual's need for
			 services; and
(b) provide the
			 individual with skills or information to assist such individual to return to
			 suitable employment.
(7)
			 "Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program" means a
			 program that is funded by the United States Department of Labor to assist
			 individuals receiving unemployment benefits to return to suitable work more
			 quickly.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-1 - Refusal of work general

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) An individual
			 shall be ineligible for benefits if the Administrator finds that the individual
			 failed without sufficient cause either:
(1) to
			 apply for available, suitable work when so directed by the Administrator or by
			 the public employment bureau; or
(2) to accept suitable employment when
			 offered to the individual by the public employment bureau or by an
			 employer.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-2 - Bona fide offer of work or referral to work

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) In
			 determining whether an individual refused work, or a referral to work, for
			 sufficient cause, the Administrator must first establish that there was a bona
			 fide offer of work or a definite referral to work. A job referral or offer must
			 be for available work, which means a job actually open to a qualified applicant
			 on the date of the job referral or offer, or for a job available in the near
			 future. Telephone logs or other business records shall be admissible as
			 evidence of a bona fide offer of work or referral to work.
(b) An offer of work can be made only by an
			 employer or his authorized agent or the public employment bureau. A referral to
			 work can be made only by the Administrator or the public employment
			 bureau.
(c) In order to establish
			 that a refusal occurred, the Administrator must determine that the individual
			 knew he was being offered a specific job or a referral to a specific job, and
			 did not accept the specific job or referral.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-3 - Suitable work-usual occupation or work for which one is reasonably fitted

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Suitable work
			 means either work in an individual's usual occupation or work for which he is
			 reasonably fitted. Usual occupation is work which the individual has performed
			 for an appreciable period of time. Short-term employment performed sporadically
			 or incidentally shall not be considered by the Administrator in determining an
			 individual's usual occupation.
(b)
			 Work for which the individual is reasonably fitted means work which the
			 individual can do or be readily trained to do considering his prior training,
			 education, experience, and skills.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-4 - Reasonable distance of offer of work

Current through July 10, 2024
In determining whether work offered is within a reasonable
				distance, the Administrator shall consider:
(1) availability of public
			 transportation;
(2) personal means
			 of transportation available to the individual;
(3) common commuting patterns for individuals
			 similarly situated;
(4) the
			 individual's physical condition;
(5) actual distance in miles between the
			 individual's residence at the time of the offer and the place of
			 employment.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-5 - Suitable work-degree of risk to health

Current through July 10, 2024
In determining whether or not work offered is suitable for an
				individual, the Administrator shall consider the degree of risk to the
				individual's health. In determining the degree of risk, the Administrator may
				consider the individual's state of health, his physical capabilities, the
				physical and mental requirements of the job, working conditions and the
				existence of any medical documentation concerning the individual's limitations.
				Where an unreasonable risk to the individual's health is established, the
				Administrator shall find the work to be unsuitable for the
				individual.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-6 - Suitable work-degree of risk to safety

Current through July 10, 2024
In determining whether or not work offered is suitable for an
				individual, the Administrator shall consider the degree of risk to the
				individual's safety. Where an unreasonable risk to the individual's safety is
				established, given his prior training and experience, the Administrator shall
				find the work to be unsuitable for the individual.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-7 - Suitable work-degree of risk to morals

Current through July 10, 2024
In determining whether or not work offered is suitable for an
				individual, the Administrator shall consider the degree of risk to the
				individual's morals. In determining the degree of risk, the Administrator shall
				consider the individual's moral or religious principles and beliefs, and any
				conflicting work requirements. Where an unreasonable risk to the individual's
				morals is established, the Administrator shall find the work to be unsuitable
				for the individual.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-8 - Suitable work-prior training, experience and skills

Current through July 10, 2024
The Administrator shall consider an individual's prior
				training, experience, and skills in determining the suitability of work
				offered. The Administrator shall afford an individual a reasonable period of
				time within which to obtain employment at his highest wage and skill level.
				Where an individual has refused an offer or referral to work which is
				significantly below his highest wage or skill level before such reasonable
				period of time has lapsed, the Administrator shall find such work to be
				unsuitable for the individual.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-9 - Suitable work-previous wage level

Current through July 10, 2024
The Administrator shall consider an individual's previous wage
				level in determining the suitability of work offered. Previous wage level means
				wages, salary, or benefits most recently received by the individual prior to
				the establishment of a claim for benefits, except that in establishing a
				previous wage level, the Administrator may consider other than the most recent
				earnings where:
(1) the individual's
			 most recent earnings were received for so short a period or under such unusual
			 conditions that the individual cannot reasonably command such earnings
			 regularly; or
(2) the individual's
			 earnings prior to his most recent earnings are higher and indicate that,
			 considering his experience and training, he can command such higher rates at
			 the present time; or
(3) the
			 individual can command higher wages based on education, training or
			 accomplishment; or
(4) the
			 individual cannot obtain employment at his most recent wage level as a result
			 of his incapacity or inability to perform such work, or where the type of
			 employment he most recently performed is no longer in existence.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-10 - Suitable work-length of unemployment

Current through July 10, 2024
The Administrator shall consider length of unemployment in
				determining the suitability of an offer of work. An individual is entitled to a
				reasonable period of time within which to obtain employment at his highest
				skill and wage level before work requiring less skill or paying lower wages can
				be deemed suitable.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-11 - Sufficient cause for refusal of work or refusal of job referral

Current through July 10, 2024
An individual may refuse suitable work or a job referral to
				suitable work for sufficient cause. Sufficient cause for a refusal of suitable
				work or a job referral to suitable work exists when there is a reasonable basis
				for such refusal. A reasonable basis for such refusal may include present
				employment, risk to safety resulting from the geographic location of the work,
				personal illness or disability, domestic responsibilities of a compelling
				nature, confinement, or attendance at a training course approved by the
				Administrator.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-13 - Suitable work-prevailing wages, hours, conditions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The Administrator shall not deny benefits
			 to an individual solely for refusing to accept work if the wages, hours or
			 other conditions of work offered are substantially less favorable to the
			 individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality.
(b) Where the Administrator has good cause to
			 believe, or where the individual alleges that the wages, hours or other
			 conditions of work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual
			 than those prevailing for similar work in the locality, the Administrator shall
			 contact a sufficient number of area employers engaged in similar work to
			 establish with reasonable certainty what wages, hours or conditions are
			 prevailing.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-14 - Refusal of work-union affiliation

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The
			 Administrator shall not deny benefits to an individual solely on the basis of
			 refusing to accept work if, as a condition of being employed, the individual
			 would be required to join a company union, or resign or refrain from joining a
			 bona fide labor organization.
(b)
			 For the purposes of this section, a company union means any committee, employee
			 representation plan or association of employees which exists for the purpose,
			 in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances or terms
			 and conditions of employment which the employer has initiated or created or
			 whose initiation or creation he has suggested or participated in or the
			 formulation of whose governing rules or policies or the conduct of whose
			 management, policies or elections the employer participates in or supervises or
			 which the employer manages, finances, controls, dominates, or assists in
			 maintaining or financing.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-16 - Refusal of work commencing between 1 and 6 a.m

Current through July 10, 2024
The Administrator shall not deny benefits to an individual
				solely for refusing to accept work if the position is for work which commences
				or ends between one and six o'clock in the morning and the Administrator finds
				that:
(1) such work or the surrounding
			 conditions would constitute a high degree of risk to the health, safety or
			 morals of the individual; or
(2)
			 such work would be beyond the physical capabilities or fitness of the
			 individual; or
(3) there is no
			 suitable transportation available between the individual's home and his place
			 of employment.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-16a - Refusal of work-temporary help service/temporary employees

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Where the Administrator finds that a
			 temporary employee of a temporary help service has refused to accept suitable
			 employment when it is offered to him by such service upon completion of an
			 assignment, the individual shall be ineligible for benefits until the
			 individual has returned to work and earned six times his benefit
			 rate.
(b) In determining whether
			 work offered by a temporary help service is suitable, the Administrator shall
			 consider all of the factors in section
			 31-236-1
			 through
			 31-236-16,
			 inclusive. The Administrator shall consider the temporary nature of the work as
			 a factor in determining suitability, unless the individual has been employed by
			 one or more temporary help services and has worked for one or more temporary
			 help services for more than thirty calendar days.
(c) For purposes of this section, "temporary
			 help service" means any person conducting a business which consists of
			 employing individuals directly for the purpose of part-time or temporary help
			 to others.
(d) For purposes of this
			 section, "temporary employee" means an employee assigned to work for a client
			 of a temporary help service.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-17 - Voluntary leaving-general

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Except as
			 provided in section
			 31-236-58
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, an individual shall be
			 ineligible for benefits until the individual has earned at least ten times the
			 individual's benefit rate if the Administrator finds that the individual has
			 left suitable work voluntarily, as defined in section
			 31-236-18
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, and without good cause
			 attributable to the employer, as defined in section
			 31-236-19
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(b) No individual shall be ineligible for
			 benefits as a result of a voluntary leaving of work under any of the following
			 circumstances:
(1) where the individual
			 leaves suitable work for good cause attributable to the employer, including
			 leaving as a result of changes in conditions created by the individual's
			 employer;
(2) where the individual
			 leaves work to care for the individual's spouse, child, or parent with an
			 illness or disability, as defined in section
			 31-236(a)(16)
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes and 31-236-23 of the Regulations of
			 Connecticut State Agencies;
(3)
			 where the individual leaves work due to the discontinuance of transportation,
			 other than the individual's personally owned vehicle, used to get to and from
			 work, provided no reasonable alternative transportation is available;
(4) where while on layoff from the
			 individual's regular work the individual accepts other employment and leaves
			 such other employment when recalled by the individual's former
			 employer;
(5) where the individual
			 leaves work which is outside the individual's regular apprenticeable trade to
			 return to work in the individual's regular apprenticeable trade;
(6) where the individual leaves work solely
			 by reason of governmental regulation or statute;
(7) where the individual leaves part-time
			 work to accept full-time work;
(8)
			 Where the individual leaves work to protect the individual, the individual's
			 child, the individual's spouse or the individual's parent from becoming or
			 remaining a victim of domestic violence, as defined in section
			 17b-112a
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes, provided such individual has made
			 reasonable efforts to preserve the employment; and
(9) Where the individual leaves work to
			 accompany the individual's spouse to a place from which it is impractical for
			 such individual to commute due to a change in location of the spouse's
			 employment.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 236 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-236-18 - Voluntary leaving defined

Current through July 10, 2024
In order to establish that an individual left suitable work
				voluntarily, the Administrator must find that the individual committed the
				specific intentional act of terminating his own employment. The Administrator
				may not find that an individual left suitable work voluntarily if:
(1) upon notification by his employer of a
			 future layoff or discharge, the individual exercised an option, expressly given
			 by his employer, to leave his employment immediately; or
(2) the individual left work as the result of
			 a demand by his employer to either quit or be discharged; or
(3) the individual tendered a notice of
			 resignation to his employer and that employer discharged the individual before
			 the expiration of the notice, except where the employer simultaneously paid the
			 individual in full for the period of notice; or
(4) The individual attempted to rescind a
			 notice of resignation tendered to his employer prior to the expiration of the
			 notice period and the employer had not yet taken substantial steps to replace
			 him.