Unemployment Compensation Interpretation Service: Benefit Series, Volume 8, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 |
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Able and available accept employment accept suitable affirmed appeal tribunal Appeals Referee August August 12 Benefit Series Board of Review cents an hour cents per hour claim for benefits claimant refused claimant testified claimant was referred Commission Company December December 14 December 20 Decision of Appeals Decision of Referee disqualified earned eligible for benefits employment office Employment Service evidence experience February 28 filed a claim Findings of Fact held available hired individual ineligible July June June 21 labor market ment months November November 13 November 21 obtain October October 16 opinion period ployment prior prospects provides rate of pay Reasons for Decision receive benefits refused suitable refused to accept residence September September 14 September 20 Servicemen's Readjustment Act shift statement of availability suitable employment testimony tion unavailable unem unemployed Unemployment Compensation Law Unemployment Insurance union United States Employment veteran Voluntary leaving wage worker
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Page 71 - Act to any otherwise eligible individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the following conditions: (a) if the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute; (b) If the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality ; (c) If as a condition of being employed the individual would be required to join a company union or to resign from or refrain...
Page 53 - The legislature, therefore, declares that in its considered judgment the public good, and the general welfare of the citizens of this state require the enactment of this measure, under the police powers of the state, for the compulsory setting aside of unemployment reserves to be used for the benefit of persons unemployed through no fault of their own.
Page 41 - As a guide to the interpretation and application of this Act, the public policy of this State is declared to be as follows : Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this State.
Page 14 - Commission according to the circumstances in each case. (1) In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, the Commission shall consider the degree of risk involved to his health, safety, and morals, his physical fitness and prior training, his experience and prior earnings, his length of unemployment and prospects for securing local work in his customary occupation, and the distance of the available work from his residence.
Page 35 - ... allowing benefits, such benefits shall be paid regardless of any appeal which may thereafter be taken, but if such decision is finally reversed, no employer's account shall be charged with benefits so paid.
Page 52 - ... (1) In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, the commissioner shall consider the degree of risk involved to his health, safety, and morals, his physical fitness and prior training, his experience and prior earnings, his length of unemployment and prospects for securing local work in his customary occupation, the existence of union conditions in previous employment, and the distance of the available work from his residence.
Page 75 - ... the burden of proof, meaning the obligation to establish the truth of the claim by a preponderance of evidence, rests throughout upon the party asserting the affirmative of the issue, and unless he meets this obligation upon the whole case he fails. This burden of proof never shifts during the course of a trial, but remains with him to the end.
Page 136 - Is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute: (B) If the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the Individual than those prevailing for similar work In the locality; (C) If as a condition of being employed the Individual would be required to Join a company union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization...
Page 69 - Looked at by itself without regard to the necessity behind it the line or point seems arbitrary. It might as well or nearly as well be a little more to one side or the other. But when it is seen that a line or point there must be, and that there is no mathematical or logical way of fixing it precisely, the decision of the legislature must be accepted unless we can say that it is very wide of any reasonable mark.
Page 71 - If the commission finds that he has failed, without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work when so directed by the employment office or the commission or to accept suitable work when offered him, or to return to his customary self-employment (if any) when so directed by the commission.