Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1598 – Wages earned but unpaid as basis for benefits payable
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1598
- Administrator: means the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this Chapter, with respect to his unemployment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Employer: means :
(a) Any employing unit which in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year paid for services in employment wages of one thousand five hundred dollars or more for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks were consecutive, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, had in employment at least one individual regardless of whether the same individual was in employment each day. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- 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
For the purposes of this Part, the administrator shall, in determining benefit rights of a claimant, treat wages earned as wages paid:
(1) In those cases where the employer has failed to make payment thereof in accordance with his contract, regular practice, or custom; or
(2) In those cases where the employee would have been eligible to receive benefits had wages been paid when earned.
Amended by Acts 1968, No. 41, §1; Acts 1985, No. 467, §1.