CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

An act to amend Section 1279.7 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance.

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AB 1854, as introduced, Boerner Horvath. Unemployment insurance: work sharing plans.

Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law deems an employee unemployed in any week if the employee works less than their usual weekly hours of work for the employee’s regular employer as the result of the employer’s participation in a work sharing plan that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the Director of Employment Development, pursuant to which the employer, in lieu of layoff, reduces employment and stabilizes the workforce. Existing law requires an employer who wishes to participate in the work sharing program to submit to the director a signed, written work sharing plan application form that meets specified requirements.

Existing law, until January 1, 2024, creates an alternative process for the submission and approval of employer work sharing plan applications. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to accept an application to participate in, or renew participation in, the work sharing program that is submitted electronically and requires the Employment Development Department to create a portal on its internet website for the provision and receipt...

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