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Bill would eliminate '8‑times' penalty for disqualified unemployment claimants while keeping requalification rule
Summary
At a Jan. 27 hearing the Oregon Employment Department and legal-aid advocates supported House Bill 3024, which would remove an eight-times reduction penalty that reduces a claimant’s maximum benefit after disqualification; the bill would retain the requirement that claimants requalify by earning four times their weekly benefit amount.
House Committee on Labor and Workplace Standards members heard testimony Jan. 27 on House Bill 3024, which would remove the statutory penalty that reduces a requalified claimant's maximum unemployment benefit by eight times the weekly benefit amount.
"House Bill 3024 would eliminate the penalty while leaving in place the requirement to requalify," Lindsey Lakey, division director for Unemployment Insurance at the Oregon Employment Department, told the committee. Lakey described current practice: when a claimant is disqualified for cause (for example, quitting without good cause or being fired for…
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