PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: November 23, 1999.
Purpose: To repeal WAC 192-12-405 and replace it with a revised rule WAC 192-320-070 Conditions for relief of benefit charges due to a voluntary quit.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 192-12-405.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 50.12.010, 50.12.040.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 99-19-071 on September 16, 1999.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
December 15, 1999
Carver Gayton
Commissioner
A contribution-paying non-local government base year employer, who has not been granted relief of charges under RCW 50.20.020(2) may request relief of charges for a voluntary quit not attributable to the employer under RCW 50.29.020(3) and WAC 192-320-065.
(1) Reasons for a voluntary quit not attributable to the employer may include, but are not limited to:
(a) The claimant's illness or disability or the illness, disability or death of a member(s) of the claimant's immediate family;
(b) The claimant's domestic responsibilities;
(c) Accepting a job with another employer;
(d) Relocating for a spouse's employment;
(e) Starting or resuming school or training;
(f) Being in jail;
(g) The distance to the job site when the job was accepted and the distance at the time of the quit remained the same, or the job location may have changed; but the distance traveled or difficulty of travel was not increased;
(h) Being dissatisfied with wages, hours or other working conditions generally known when the job was accepted; and the working conditions are determined suitable for the occupation in the claimant's labor market.
(2) Reasons for a voluntary quit considered attributable to employer are those work-related factors of such a compelling nature as to cause a reasonably prudent person to leave employment. The work factors must have been reported to the employer if the employer has reasons not to be aware of the conditions, and the employer failed to improve the factors within a reasonable period of time. Such work-related factors may include, but are not limited to:
(a) Change in work location which causes an increase in distance and/or difficulty of travel, but only if it is clearly greater than is customary for workers in the individual's classification and labor market;
(b) Deterioration of work site safety provided the employee has reported such safety deterioration to the employer; and the employer has failed to correct the hazards within a reasonable period of time;
(c) Employee skills no longer required for the job;
(d) Unreasonable hardship on the health or morals of the employee;
(e) Reductions in hours;
(f) Reduction in pay;
(g) Notification of impending layoff; and
(h) Such other work-related factors as the commissioner may deem pertinent.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:
| WAC 192-12-405 | Conditions for relief of benefit charges. |