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SENATE BILL 5464
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Prentice, Vognild, Moore, Fraser and Pelz
Read first time 01/29/93. Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.
AN ACT Relating to limiting the unemployment insurance disqualification for misconduct; amending RCW 50.20.060; and adding a new section to chapter 50.04 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 50.04 RCW to read as follows:
"Misconduct" means an employee's act or failure to act in willful disregard of his or her employer's interest where the effect of the employee's act or failure to act is to harm the employer's business.
Sec. 2. RCW 50.20.060 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 18 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) An individual shall be disqualified from
benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which he or she
has been discharged or suspended for misconduct connected with his or her work
and thereafter until he or she has obtained work and earned wages of not less
than ((the)) five times his or her suspended weekly benefit
amount ((in each of five calendar weeks)). Alcoholism shall not
constitute a defense to disqualification from benefits due to misconduct.
(2) An individual who has been discharged because of a felony or a gross misdemeanor of which he or she has been convicted, or has admitted committing to a competent authority, and which is connected with his or her work shall be disqualified from receiving any benefits for which base year credits are earned in any employment prior to the discharge. Such disqualification begins with the first day of the calendar week in which he or she has been discharged, and all benefits paid during the period the individual was disqualified shall be recoverable, notwithstanding RCW 50.20.190, 50.24.020, or any other provision of this title.
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