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Committee accepts Senate language to exempt workers at employers under verified extended shutdowns, asks for updated wording
Summary
The Ways and Means committee accepted the Senate position on two Department of Labor items and asked staff to provide revised language that would exempt employees at employers under a verified extended shutdown from certain reemployment- and work-search requirements, committee members said at the meeting.
The Ways and Means committee accepted the Senate position on two Department of Labor items and asked staff to provide revised language that would exempt employees at employers under a verified extended shutdown from certain reemployment- and work-search requirements, committee members said at the meeting.
Committee members said the change is intended to apply to workers at operations such as General Motors during an employer-verified extended shutdown and to avoid increasing cost pressure on the state unemployment insurance trust fund.
Senator Masherson, sponsor of the language,…
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