1997 Minnesota Code
Chapters 268 - 269 Economic Security
Chapter 268 Department of Economic Security
Section 268.125 Additional reemployment insurance benefits.

268.125 Additional reemployment insurance benefits.

Subdivision 1. Additional benefits; when available. Additional reemployment insurance benefits are authorized under this section only if the commissioner determines that:

(1) an employer has reduced operations at a facility employing 100 or more individuals for at least six months during the preceding year resulting in the reduction of at least 50 percent of the employer's work force and the layoff of at least 50 employees at that facility, including reductions caused as a result of a major natural disaster declared by the President;

(2) the employer has no expressed plan to resume operations which would lead to the reemployment of those employees at any time in the immediate future; and

(3) the unemployment rate for the county in which the facility is located was ten percent during the month of the reduction or any of the three months preceding or succeeding the reduction.

Subd. 2. Payment of benefits. All benefits payable under this section are payable from the fund.

Subd. 3. Eligibility conditions. A claimant is eligible to receive additional benefits under this section for any week during the claimant's benefit year if the commissioner finds that:

(1) the claimant's unemployment is the result of a reduction in operations as provided under subdivision 1;

(2) the claimant is unemployed and meets the eligibility requirements for the receipt of unemployment benefits under section 268.08;

(3) the claimant is not subject to a disqualification for benefits under section 268.09; for the purpose of this subdivision, the disqualifying conditions set forth in section 268.09, and the requalifying requirements thereunder, apply to the receipt of additional benefits under this section;

(4) the claimant has exhausted all rights to regular benefits payable under section 268.07, is not entitled to receive extended benefits under section 268.115, and is not entitled to receive reemployment insurance benefits under any other state or federal law for the week in which the claimant is claiming additional benefits;

(5) the claimant has made a claim for additional benefits with respect to any week the claimant is claiming benefits in accordance with the regulations as the commissioner may prescribe with respect to claims for regular benefits; and

(6) a majority of the claimant's wage credits were earned with an employer for whom the commissioner has determined there was a reduction in operations under subdivision 1.

Subd. 4. Weekly benefit amount. A claimant's weekly benefit amount under this section shall be the same as the individual's weekly benefit amount payable during the individual's current benefit year under section 268.07.

Subd. 5. Maximum benefits payable. A claimant's maximum amount of additional benefits payable in the individual's benefit year shall be 13 times the individual's weekly benefit amount. Reemployment insurance benefits paid to an individual under any state or federal law other than regular benefits payable under section 268.07 shall be deducted from that individual's maximum amount of additional benefits.

HIST: 1987 c 362 s 17; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1994 c 503 s 1-3; 1996 c 417 s 13-15; 1997 c 66 s 79; 2Sp1997 c 2 s 18,19