(C)(1) A party may only appeal from a decision of the department directly to the panel. A party may only appeal a decision of the panel to in the court of common pleas, either in the county in which the employee resides or the county in which he was last employed in the manner provided in Section 41-35-750. (D) A quorum must consist of all three panel members and is necessary to hear or decide an appeal under item (C)(1). A decision of the panel must be rendered in writing and is subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. (E)(1) A person must be screened and found qualified in the manner provided in Chapter 20, Title 2 before he may be elected to serve as a commissioner. The qualifications that each commissioner must possess, include, but are not limited to: (a) a baccalaureate or more advanced degree from: (i) a recognized institution of higher learning requiring face-to-face contact between its students and instructors prior to completion of the academic program; (ii) an institution of higher learning that has been accredited by a regional or national accrediting body; or (iii) an institution of higher learning chartered before 1962; or (b) a background of at least five years in any combination of the following fields of expertise: (i) general business administration; (ii) general business management; (iii) management at the Department of Workforce, or its predecessor; (iv) human resources management; (v) finance; or (vi) law. (2) No member of the General Assembly shall be elected to be a commissioner while the member is serving in the General Assembly; nor shall a member of the General Assembly be elected or appointed to be a commissioner for a period of two years after the member either: (a) ceases to be a member of the General Assembly; or (b) fails to file for election to the General Assembly in accordance with Section 71115 (3) As of the effective date of this act, the term of each commissioner is ended and each commissioner shall hold his seat in holdover status until his successor is elected. (F)(1) The commissioners are bound by the Code of Judicial Conduct, as contained in Rule 501 of the South Carolina Appellate
(ii) by the spouse of such the a student, if such the spouse is advised, at the time such the spouse commences to perform such the service that (I) the employment of such the spouse to perform such the service is provided under a program to provide financial assistance to such the student by such his school, college, or university, and (II) such the employment will is not be covered by any a program of unemployment insurance; (b) service performed by an individual under the age of twentytwo who is enrolled at a nonprofit or public educational institution which that normally maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally has a regularly organized body of students in attendance at the place where its educational activities are carried on as a student in a fulltime program, taken for credit at such the institution, which combines academic instruction with work experience, if such the service is an integral part of such the program, and such the institution has so certified this to the employer, except that this subparagraph shall does not apply to service performed in a program established for or on behalf of an employer or group of employers; (c) service performed in the employ of a hospital, if such the service is performed by a patient of the hospital, as defined in Section 4127280.; (10) for the purposes of Section 4127230(2) and (3), ‘employment’ does not include service performed: (a) in the direct employ of a church, convention, or association of churches or an organization operated primarily for religious purposes and which is operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church, convention, or association of churches; or (b) by an ordained, a commissioned, or a licensed minister of a church in the exercise of his ministry or by a member of a religious order in the exercise of duties required by the order; or (c) in a facility conducted for the purpose of carrying out a program of rehabilitation for individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury or providing remunerative work for individuals who because of their impaired physical or mental capacity cannot be absorbed readily in the competitive labor market by an individual receiving rehabilitation or remunerative work; or (d) before January 1, 1978, for a hospital in a state prison or other state correctional institution by an inmate of the prison or correctional institution and after December 31, 1977, by an inmate of a custodial or penal institution; or
such the suit in accordance with the provisions of Section 4127580.” SECTION 29. Section 4127580 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “Section 4127580. In any a civil action to enforce the provisions of Chapters 27 through 41 of this title, the commission department and the State may be represented by any a qualified attorney who is employed by the commission department and is designated by it for this purpose or, at the commission’s department’s request, by the Attorney General.” SECTION 30. Section 4127600 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “Section 4127600. The commission department may compromise any a civil penalty or cause or of action arising under the provisions pursuant to a provision of Chapters 27 through 41 of this title instead of commencing suit thereon on them and may compromise any such the case after suit thereon has been commenced on it commences. In such these cases the commission department shall keep on file in its office the reasons for settlement by compromise,; together with a statement on the amount of contribution imposed,; the amount of additional contribution, penalty, or interest imposed by law in consequence of neglect or delinquency; and the amount actually paid in accordance with pursuant to the terms of the compromise.” SECTION 31. Section 4127610 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “Section 4127610. The failure to do any an act required by or underthe provisions pursuant to a provision of Chapters 27 through 41 of this title shall be deemed is considered an act committed in part at the office of the commission in Columbia department.” SECTION 32. Section 4127620 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “Section 4127620. The certificate of the commission department to the effect that a contribution has not been paid, that a report has not been made, that information has not been