Opinion ID: 1746068
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Heading: WDCA Subsection 301(5)

Text: Cases involving the termination of benefits pursuant to WDCA subsection 301(5) require that the court make several determinations. Specifically, courts must examine (1) whether the plaintiff is disabled, M.C.L. § 418.301(4); MSA 17.237(301)(4); Haske v. Transport Leasing Inc., Indiana, 455 Mich. 628, 566 N.W.2d 896 (1997), (2) whether a reasonable offer of favored work has been extended, M.C.L. § 418.301(5)(a); MSA 17.237(301)(5)(a); Price v. City of Westland, 451 Mich. 329, 547 N.W.2d 24 (1996), and (3) whether a reasonable offer of favored work has been unreasonably refused, M.C.L. § 418.301(5)(a); MSA 17.237(301)(5)(a); Pulver v. Dundee Cement Co., 445 Mich. 68, 515 N.W.2d 728 (1994). Subsection 301(5) also addresses itself to situations involving the termination of disabled employees who have been employed pursuant to the favored work provisions of § 301. We now address benefit entitlement after an employee who has been employed pursuant to subsection 301(5) for less than one hundred weeks ends a period of unreasonable refusal and is subsequently terminated. MCL 418.301(5)(a),(e); MSA 17.237(301)(5)(a),(e).