UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW CHANGES

By: Kathleen Bray

Effective August 2, 2009 the Minnesota Unemployment Compensation Law had been liberalized in at least the following ways:

* Situations where an employee can quit and be eligible to receive unemployment benefits now includes leaving employment to care for a family member due to illness, injury or disability, to relocate to accompany a spouse whose job location has changed, as well as because of the domestic abuse of a family member.
* Misconduct now does not include absence as a consequence of mental illness or impairment, absence necessary to provide care for an immediate family member as a result of illness, injury or disability or absence resulting from an applicant or immediate family member being the victim of domestic abuse.
* The single incident exception now includes language suggesting that, if a discharge involves a single incident, this is an important fact to be considered in deciding whether the conduct rises to the level of employee misconduct.
* Employers must provide wage detail information within five calendar days, or the information provided by the applicant will be used to determine the benefit amount.

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