Unemployment Insurance in United States
Plain-English Law
Unemployment Insurance as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455):
UI) A program run jointly by federal and state governments that provides money benefits for a specified time after an employee has been laid off or fired from a job for reasons other than serious misconduct. In some instances, an employee who quits a job for a good reason (for example, because of sexual harassment at work) can also collect unemployment insurance benefits
Practical Information
Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982
A form of social security that pays a weekly income to workers while they are unemployed. All states have established unemployment insurance funds, which are supported by a payroll tax. Benefit payments usually start after a fixed “waiting period” and continue for a number of weeks that varies with the state laws. Usually the payee must call at the state unemployment insurance office in person to arrange for the collection of his or her check. The payee is expected to take any job that the state finds, providing that the wages paid by the new employer equal the wages paid on the last job.
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Unemployment Insurance in State Statute Topics
Introduction to Unemployment Insurance (State statute topic)
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Proving Independent Contractor Status in Challenging Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Compensation Assessments
This section discusses generally the subject of Proving Independent Contractor Status in Challenging Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Compensation Assessments, how to determine the facts essential to Proving Independent Contractor Status in Challenging Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Compensation Assessments, and, to some extent, how to prove it in litigation and defense. Related topics are also addressed.
Resources
Further Reading
- Information about Unemployment Insurance in the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law.
Unemployment Insurance (ui) in the International Business Landscape
Definition of Unemployment Insurance (ui) in the context of U.S. international business and public trade policy: Federal legislation that established programs designed to provide cash benefits to once regularly employed members of the labor force who become involuntarily unemployed and who are able and willing to accept suitable jobs. Created by the Social Security Act of 1935.
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