2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations
CHAPTER 28-43 - Employment Security – Contributions
§ 28-43-8 - Experience rates – Tables.

SECTION 28-43-8

   § 28-43-8  Experience rates – Tables. – (a) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date, the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is six and four tenths percent (6.4%) or more of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule A in this subsection.

   (2) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date, the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is six and one-tenth percent (6.1%) but less than six and four-tenths (6.4%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule B in this subsection.

   (3) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is five and eight-tenths percent (5.8%) but less than six and one-tenth (6.1%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule C in this subsection.

   (4) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is five and three-tenths percent (5.3%) but less than five and eight-tenths (5.8%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule D in this subsection.

   (5) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is four and seven-tenths percent (4.7%) but less than five and three-tenths (5.3%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule E in this subsection.

   (6) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is three and six-tenths percent (3.6%) but less than four and seven-tenths (4.7%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule F in this subsection.

   (7) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is three percent (3%) but less than three and six-tenths (3.6%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule G in this subsection.

   (8) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is two and seventy five hundredths percent (2.75%) but less than 3 percent (3%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule H in this subsection.

   (9) Whenever, as of September 30, 1987, or any subsequent computation date the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits is less than two and seventy five hundredths percent (2.75%) of total payrolls as determined in § 28-43-1(9), an experience rate for each eligible employer for the immediately following calendar year shall be determined in accordance with schedule I in this subsection.

   (10) Whenever the amount in the employment security fund available for benefits, net of obligations owed to the federal government, is less than zero at the end of the second month in any calendar quarter, every employer subject to the contribution provisions of this chapter shall be required to pay a surtax of three-tenths of one percent (.3%) of the individual employer's taxable wages for the calendar quarter, in addition to any other contribution which the employer is required to make under any other provision of this chapter; provided, however, that this surtax shall not be imposed during any quarter of calendar years 2009 and 2010 during which the interest on federal Title XII advances under section 1201 of the Social Security Act has been waived.

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   (b) The contribution rate for each employer for a given calendar year shall be determined and the employer notified of it not later than April 1 next succeeding each computation date. That determination shall be binding unless an appeal is taken in accordance with provisions of § 28-43-13.