SB514 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Quinton Ross

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Unemployment compensation, limit findings of fact, conclusions of law, Sec. 25-4-98 added

Summary

This bill limits how unemployment compensation findings and orders can be used in other lawsuits and restricts what can be joined with unemployment compensation cases.

What This Bill Does

It adds Section 25-4-98, stating that a finding of fact, conclusion of law, judgment, or final order made under unemployment compensation is not binding and may not be used as evidence in actions outside this chapter, even if the parties and facts are the same. It also restricts unemployment compensation actions to only addressing an employee's entitlement to benefits; no other claims can be joined with such actions, and unemployment actions cannot be joined with other lawsuits. The changes take effect immediately after passage and governor approval.

Who It Affects

• Employees seeking unemployment benefits: their benefit decisions would not have binding effect or be usable as evidence in other non-unemployment lawsuits.
• Employers and other parties involved in unemployment compensation cases: they cannot combine unemployment compensation actions with other lawsuits; such actions must be limited to benefits issues.

Key Provisions

• Adds Section 25-4-98 declaring that findings of fact, conclusions of law, judgments, or final orders under unemployment compensation are not binding and may not be used as evidence in non-unemployment actions, even if parties and facts are the same.
• Unemployment compensation actions may address only an employee's entitlement to benefits; no other actions may be joined with such actions, and unemployment actions may not be joined with any other actions.
• Effective date: immediate after passage and governor approval (or otherwise becoming law).

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Subjects

Unemployment Compensation