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Rep. Kate Logan introduces bill to allow unemployment benefits during extended labor disputes
Summary
Rep. Kate Logan presented H338, a short bill that would exempt workers engaged in a labor dispute from unemployment-disqualification rules after a two-week work stoppage, making them eligible for unemployment compensation if the stoppage lasts longer than 14 days.
Representative Kate Logan told the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee she is introducing H338, a narrowly drawn change to Vermont’s unemployment compensation disqualification rules.
Logan said H338 would allow employees involved in a labor dispute that results in a work stoppage to be eligible for unemployment compensation after the first 14 days of the stoppage. She described the change as an exemption to disqualification intended to reduce pressure on workers to return to work for financial reasons in the middle of an ongoing labor dispute.
Logan said the language was based on drafting used in New Jersey and that Legislative Council assisted with drafting. Committee members asked whether the bill applies only to organized labor and whether the labor-dispute definition would be narrow; Logan said it is aimed at formally organized labor disputes that produce a work stoppage and that some groups that are not permitted to strike would not be affected.
No committee votes or formal actions occurred during the presentation.
