2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 14 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment
Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance
Section 657.357 - Apprenticeship program participants eligible for benefits; conditions.

OR Rev Stat § 657.357 (2015) What's This?

Notwithstanding the requirements or restrictions of ORS 657.335 to 657.360 or the provisions of this chapter relating to availability for work, actively seeking work or refusal to accept suitable work, an unemployed individual participating in an apprenticeship program who is otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits shall not be ineligible for such benefits or waiting week credit solely by reason of attending a program of related instruction established in accordance with ORS 660.157 when such attendance does not exceed five weeks during the benefit year of the individual and when such attendance is required as a condition of the individual’s continued employment and shall be considered to be in a program of instruction with the approval of the Director of the Employment Department if the individual:

(1) Provides the director with a copy of that individual’s effective apprenticeship agreement approved in accordance with the requirements of ORS 660.002 to 660.210; and

(2) Establishes to the satisfaction of the director that the training is scheduled by a work-related entity other than the claimant.

[1989 c.818 §3; 1999 c.124 §1]

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