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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1593

  • Wages: means all remuneration for services, including vacation pay, holiday pay, dismissal pay, commissions, bonuses, the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash, and WARN Act payments received pursuant to 29 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
  • Week: means such period of seven consecutive days, as the administrator may by regulation prescribe. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

An eligible individual who is employed in any week shall be paid with respect to such week a benefit equal to his weekly benefit amount less any wages payable to him with respect to such week in excess of fifty percent of his current weekly benefit amount, or fifty dollars, whichever is lower.  This benefit, if not a multiple of one dollar, shall be computed to the nearest multiple of one dollar.

Amended by Acts 1958, No. 382, §2; Acts 1972, No. 289, §1.  Acts 1983, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 2, §1, eff. April 3, 1983.