§ 11-10-313 — Compensation based on multiple-state earnings

(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under this chapter with his or her wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of other states which are approved by the United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies as reasonably calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of compensation in those situations and which include provisions for: (1) Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual's wages and employment covered under two (2) or more state unemployment compensation laws; and (2) Avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining. (b) (1) Any and all wage and employment information necessary for the carrying out of the arrangements shall be promptly provided by employers upon request by the director. (2) Willful failure to promptly provide the information shall subject an employer to the penalties set forth in § 11-10-106(b) .

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 200, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1971, No. 35, § 20; 1985, No. 8, § 30; 1985, No. 9, § 30; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-1123; Acts 1991, No. 100, § 16.