Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1602 – Denial of benefits to individuals taking approved training prohibited; ineligibility of certain students; benefits payable to individuals taking approved training not to be charged to experience rating record of b…
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1602
- Administrator: means the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
- Base period: means the first four of the last five complete calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year. 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
- 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
- Employment: means , subject to the other provisions of this Subsection, any services including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied;
- Hospital: means an institution which has been licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health as a hospital. 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
(1) Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Chapter, no otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week because he is in training with the approval of the Administrator, nor shall such individual be denied benefits with respect to any week in which he is in training with the approval of the Administrator by reason of the application of provisions in La. Rev. Stat. 23:1600(3), relating to availability for work and the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 23:1601(3), relating to failure, without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work when so directed by the Administrator or to accept suitable work when offered him, or to return to his customary self-employment (if any) when so directed by the Administrator.
(2) An individual, except as provided in Subsection (1) of this section, will be deemed unavailable for work in any week in which it is found that the individual is attending a regularly established school, college, university, hospital, or training school (excluding, however, night school or part-time training courses, vocational technical schools and apprenticeship classes), or is in any vacation period intervening between regular school terms during which he is a student of any such regularly established educational institution, hospital, or training school. However, these provisions do not apply to any individual who, subsequent to his enrollment in and while attending a regularly established school, has been regularly employed and upon becoming unemployed makes an effort to secure work and holds himself available for suitable work with his last employer, or holds himself available for any other employment deemed suitable. If it is found that any individual received benefits who was not eligible therefor by reason of having resumed the status of a student at the end of a vacation period, such individual will be liable to repay a sum equal to the benefits thus received.
(3) Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, for the purposes of La. Rev. Stat. 23:1536 any benefits paid to individuals, who are in approved training with the approval of the administrator, shall not be charged to the experience rating record of base period employers.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 136, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1972. Amended by Acts 1975, No. 466, §3; Acts 1980, No. 617, §1.