HB85 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Greg Wren

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Unemployment compensation, benefits for active duty military dependent spouses who quit work in order to relocate due to spouse's change of station orders, activation orders, or unit deployment orders, authorized, Sec. 25-4-78 am'd.

Summary

HB85 lets spouses of active-duty military members who quit work to relocate due to the spouse’s orders qualify for unemployment benefits instead of being disqualified.

What This Bill Does

The bill adds an exception to the voluntary quitting rule in unemployment benefits. If a person leaves their job to relocate because their active-duty military spouse received change-of-station, activation, or unit deployment orders, they may receive unemployment benefits. The exception applies to separations that occur on or after October 1, 2011, and any benefits paid for the prior period will not be charged to the employer’s experience rating. The rest of the unemployment rules remain in place.

Who It Affects

• Spouses of active-duty military members who quit their job to relocate due to the service member’s orders; they would be eligible for unemployment benefits under the new exception.
• Employers of those spouses; they will not have those specific unemployment benefits charged to their employer experience rating account.

Key Provisions

• Adds an exemption to the 'voluntarily quitting' disqualification for unemployment benefits when the quit is to relocate due to an active-duty military-connected spouse’s change of station, activation, or deployment orders.
• The exemption applies to separations on or after October 1, 2011.
• Benefits paid under this exemption shall not be charged to the employer’s experience rating account.

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Subjects

Unemployment Compensation