SENATE BILL REPORT

SB 5436

BYSenator Warnke

Revising unemployment compensation provisions on individuals with multiple employers.

Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor

Senate Hearing Date(s):February 11, 1987; February 13, 1987

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5436 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

      Signed by Senators Warnke, Chairman; Smitherman, Vice Chairman; Anderson, Lee, Sellar, Tanner, Vognild, West.

Senate Staff:Mark McDermott (786-7429

                  February 16, 1987

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE & LABOR, FEBRUARY 13, 1987

BACKGROUND:

All employers in an individual's base year are charged for the unemployment compensation benefits paid to that individual.  If an individual worked two part time jobs simultaneously and was laid off from one job, the other employer would also be charged even if the individual continued working for that employer.

SUMMARY:

An employer is not charged if the employer continues to employ the claimant for the same number of hours that the individual worked for that employer during the base year.

EFFECT OF PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE:

The noncharged benefits or payments in lieu of contributions are pooled.

Fiscal Note:      requested

Senate Committee - Testified: Graeme Sakrisen, Employment Security Department