2017 Delaware Code
Title 19 - Labor
CHAPTER 33. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
Subchapter II Compensation Benefits; Determination and Payment
§ 3319. Appointment, organization, disqualification and compensation of appeal tribunals.
To hear and decide disputed claims the Department shall appoint 1 or more impartial appeal tribunals consisting in each case of either a salaried examiner, to be known as a referee, or a body consisting of 3 members, 1 of whom shall be a referee who shall serve as chairperson, 1 of whom shall be a representative of employers and the other of whom shall be a representative of employees. Each of the latter 2 members shall serve at the pleasure of the Department and be paid a fee of not more than $10 per day of active service on such tribunal plus necessary expenses. No person shall participate on behalf of the Department in any case in which that person is an interested party. The Department may designate alternates to serve in the absence or disqualification of any member of an appeal tribunal. The chairperson shall act alone in the absence or disqualification of any other member and that member's alternates. In no case shall the hearing proceed unless the chairperson of the appeal tribunal is present.
41 Del. Laws, c. 258, § 6; 19 Del. C. 1953, § 3319; 57 Del. Laws, c. 669, § 5B; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;
