Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1042 – Policy
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1042
- Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to his unemployment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1043
- Employment: except as otherwise provided in paragraph F, subparagraph (2), means any service performed prior to July 26, 1940 which was employment as defined in this subsection prior to such date, and subject to the other provisions of this subsection service performed after July 26, 1940, including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1043
- State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1043
Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals and welfare of the people of this State. Unemployment is therefore a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the Legislature to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden which may fall upon the unemployed worker, his family and the entire community. The achievement of social security requires protection against this greatest hazard of our economic life. This objective can be furthered by operating free public employment offices in affiliation with a nation-wide system of public employment services; by devising appropriate methods for reducing the volume of unemployment; and by the systematic accumulation of funds during periods of employment from which benefits may be paid for periods of unemployment, thus maintaining purchasing power, promoting the use of the highest skills of unemployed workers and limiting the serious social consequences of unemployment.