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Concerning disqualification from eligibility for unemployment benefits due to discharge for misconduct
Sponsored by the Senate Commerce Committee
Topics:Business & economyJobs & workers
Same legislation: SSB 1088
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 11, 2019
- Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 11, 2019
- Done: Passes the SenateMarch 20, 201932–17
- Done: House committeeApril 3, 2019
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
Under current law, an individual is disqualified from eligibility for unemployment benefits if the department of workforce development finds that the individual has been discharged for misconduct in connection with the individual’s employment. “Misconduct” is defined by the department by rule. This bill provides that “misconduct” means a deliberate act or omission by an employee that constitutes a material breach of the duties and obligations arising out of the employee’s contract of employment.
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“Misconduct” is limited to conduct evincing such willful or wanton disregard of an employer’s interest as is found in deliberate violation or disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has the right to expect of employees, or in carelessness or negligence of such degree of recurrence as to manifest equal culpability, wrongful intent or evil design, or to show an intentional and substantial disregard of the employer’s interests or of the employee’s duties and obligations to the employer. The bill includes a nonexclusive list of behaviors that constitute misconduct.
Changed since by amendment S-3058; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named March 26, 2019. On April 2, 2019 it recommended passage.
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Fiscal note
0 FTE positions in subsequent years, to be paid from the Unemployment Insurance Federal Base Grant. The Bill will also result in an undetermined favorable fiscal impact for employers resulting from an increase in the number of employees who are disqualified from collecting unemployment benefits. The favorable impact would be for the funding sources used by an employer to pay the unemployment benefits.
- Unemployment Benefits and Misconduct Definition · March 13, 2019
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