§ 27-3-311 — Disqualifications from entitlement; grounds; forfeiture

(a) An individual shall be disqualified from benefit
entitlement beginning with the effective date of an otherwise
valid claim or the week during which the failure occurred, until
he has been employed in an employee-employer relationship and
has earned at least eight (8) times the weekly benefit amount of
his current claim for services after that date, if the
department finds that he:
(i) Left his most recent work voluntarily without
good cause attributable directly to his employment, except:
(A) For bona fide medical reasons involving his
health;
(B) If returning to approved training which
meets the requirements of W.S. 27-3-307;
(C) If forced to leave the most recent work as a
result of being a victim of documented domestic violence; or
(D) If unemployed as a result of relocation due
to the transfer of the unemployed individual's spouse, either
within or outside the state, from which it is impractical to
commute to the place of employment, and upon arrival at the new
residence, the individual is in all respects able and available
for suitable work and registers for work with the department of
workforce services or an equivalent agency of another state
where the individual is residing. To qualify under this
subparagraph, the individual shall be married to a member of the
United States armed forces whose relocation is the result of an
assignment on active duty as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(d)(1),
active guard or reserve duty as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(d)(6),
active duty pursuant to title 10 of the United States Code, or
training or other duty performed by a member of the army
national guard of the United States or the air national guard of
the United States under section 316, 502, 503, 504 or 505 of
title 32 of the United States Code. Any benefits awarded under
this subparagraph shall be noncharged benefits and shall not
affect an employer's experience rating account.
(ii) Failed without good cause to apply for available
suitable work;
(iii) Failed without good cause to accept any offer
of suitable work;
(iv) Repealed by Laws 1983, Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 3.
(v) Following four (4) weeks of unemployment, failed
to apply for or accept an offer of suitable work other than in
his customary occupation offering at least fifty percent (50%)
of the compensation of his previous insured work in his
customary occupation; or
(vi) Following twelve (12) weeks of unemployment, as
a member of a labor organization fails to apply for or accept
suitable nonunion work in his customary occupation.
(vii) Repealed by Laws 2003, Ch. 73, § 2.
(b) Repealed by Laws 1983, Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 2.
(c) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 19, § 2.
(d) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 175, § 3.
(e) Any person who knowingly files a claim for benefits
which contains a false statement or misrepresentation of a
material fact, as determined by the department, shall be
disqualified from receiving benefits for a fifty-two (52) week
period beginning the week in which the false statement or
misrepresentation was made or beginning the week following the
date that notice of the overpayment is mailed to the person who
filed the claim.
(f) An individual shall be disqualified from benefit
entitlement beginning with the effective date of an otherwise
valid claim or the week during which the failure occurred, until
he has been employed in an employee-employer relationship and
has earned at least twelve (12) times the weekly benefit amount
of his current claim for services after that date, if the
department finds that he was discharged from his most recent
work for misconduct connected with his work.