Title 31 — Title 31: Labor

Sec. 31-222. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) (1) “Employment”, subject to the other provisions of this subsection, means: (A) Any service, including service in interstate commerce, and service outside the United States, pe…

Sec. 31-222a. “District” defined. Continuation of commissioners in offices. Section 31-222a is repealed. (April, 1964, P.A. 3, S. 3; P.A. 74-339, S. 35, 36.)

Sec. 31-223. Application of chapter to employers. (a) Nonvoluntary liability. Every employer who was subject to this chapter immediately prior to January 1, 1980, shall continue to be so subject. An employer not previously subject to this chapter shall become subject to this chap…

Sec. 31-223a. Employers not subject to chapter. Notification to employees. Any employer that is not subject to the provisions of this chapter and has not accepted voluntary liability under this chapter in accordance with subsection (b) of section 31-223 or subsection (g) of secti…

Sec. 31-223b. Transfer of unemployment experience upon transfer of assets, organization, trade or business of employer. Penalties. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Knowingly” means having actual knowledge of or acting with deliberate ignorance of or reckless disregard for a…

Sec. 31-224. Municipal and other public employees. Section 31-224 is repealed. (1953, S. 3062d; 1969, P.A. 700, S. 2.)

Sec. 31-225. Contributions by employers. Failure of an Indian tribe or tribal unit to make required payments. Financing of benefits paid to employees of nonprofit organizations. Bond requirement for foreign construction contractors. (a) Each contributing employer who is subject t…

Sec. 31-225a. Definitions; employers' experience accounts; noncharging provisions; benefit ratio; rates of contribution; assessments to pay interest due on federal loans and to reimburse advance fund; fund balance tax rate; notice to employers; multiple employers; employers' quar…

Secs. 31-225b to 31-226. Compensable separation charge, compensable period; rehire credits. Exception re date of filing application. Account not charged if claimant employed at that time; notice required. Employer's account not charged during employee's disqualification period; a…

Sec. 31-226a. Discharge, discipline, penalty or discrimination prohibited. Right of action. (a) No employer shall discharge, discipline, penalize or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has filed a claim or instituted or caused to be instituted any…

Sec. 31-227. Payment of benefits. Disqualifying services. Offsets and deductions: Pensions, child support obligations and state, federal and local income taxes. (a) Benefits shall be payable only to individuals who are unemployed and are eligible for benefits. Benefits shall be p…

Sec. 31-228. Benefit for total unemployment. An eligible individual who is totally unemployed throughout a week, which shall be, at the discretion of the administrator, either a calendar week or a payroll week of seven consecutive days as determined by the administrator, shall be…

Sec. 31-229. Benefit for partial unemployment. An eligible individual who is partially unemployed throughout a week, which shall be, at the discretion of the administrator, either a calendar week or a payroll week of seven consecutive days as determined by the administrator, shal…

Sec. 31-230. Benefit year, base period and alternative base period. (a) An individual's benefit year shall commence with the beginning of the week with respect to which the individual has filed a valid initiating claim and shall continue through the Saturday of the fifty-first we…

Sec. 31-231. Total unemployment benefit rate. Section 31-231 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7504; 1953, 1955, S. 3069d; 1957, P.A. 464, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 680, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 550, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 790, S. 23.)

Sec. 31-231a. Total unemployment benefit rate. (a)(1) For a construction worker identified pursuant to regulations adopted in accordance with subsection (c) of this section, the total unemployment benefit rate for the individual's benefit year commencing on or after April 1, 1996…

Sec. 31-231b. Maximum limitation on total benefits. Except as provided in sections 31-232b to 31-232k, inclusive, no individual shall receive benefits for unemployment occurring during his or her benefit year commencing after September 30, 1967, in excess of twenty-six times his …

Sec. 31-232. Maximum limitation on total benefits. Section 31-232 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7505; 1949, S. 1329b; 1953, 1955, S. 3070d; 1957, P.A. 464, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 680, S. 2; February, 1965, P.A. 550, S. 2; 1967, P.A. 790, S. 23.)

Sec. 31-232a. Additional benefits payable during periods of substantial unemployment. Section 31-232a is repealed, effective June 6, 2016. (1959, P.A. 680, S. 3; 1961, P.A. 589; 1967, P.A. 790, S. 11; 1969, P.A. 510; October, 1970, P.A. 1, S. 11; 1971, P.A. 835, S. 13; P.A. 76-41…

Sec. 31-232b. Extended benefits: Definitions. As used in this section, subsection (d) of section 31-222, sections 31-231b and 31-232c to 31-232k, inclusive, subdivision (8) of subsection (a) of section 31-236 and section 31-250, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) …

Sec. 31-232c. Applicability of chapter. Except when the result would be inconsistent with the other provisions of subsection (d) of section 31-222 and sections 31-231b, 31-232b to 31-232k, inclusive, subdivision (8) of subsection (a) of section 31-236 and section 31-250, as provi…

Sec. 31-232d. Eligibility conditions. An individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in his eligibility period only if the administrator finds that with respect to such week: (1) He is an “exhaustee”, as defined in subdivisio…

Sec. 31-232e. Weekly extended benefit amount. The weekly extended benefit amount payable to an individual for a week of total unemployment in his eligibility period shall be an amount equal to the weekly basic or augmented benefit amount, whichever is appropriate, payable to him …

Sec. 31-232f. Total extended benefit amount. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to his applicable benefit year shall be the least of the following amounts: (1) Fifty …

Sec. 31-232g. Public announcements and computations by administrator. (a) Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective or is to be terminated in this state, the administrator shall make an appropriate public announcement. (b) Computations required by the provisions …

Sec. 31-232h. Additional benefits payable, when. No individual shall receive both extended benefits and additional benefits during or in respect to the same week. An individual may become eligible to receive additional benefits under section 31-232a with respect to a week of unem…

Sec. 31-232i. Administrator's duties with respect to federal act. In the administration of the provisions of subsection (d) of section 31-222 and sections 31-231b, 31-232b to 31-232k, inclusive, subdivision (8) of subsection (a) of section 31-236 and section 31-250, which are ena…

Sec. 31-232j. Extended benefits payable from Unemployment Compensation Fund. Benefits payable under sections 31-232b to 31-232h, inclusive, and section 31-232k shall be payable out of the Unemployment Compensation Fund. (October, 1970, P.A. 1, S. 14; P.A. 81-17, S. 7, 9.) History…

Sec. 31-232k. Interstate claims for extended benefits. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an individual shall not be eligible for extended benefits for any week if (1) extended benefits are payable for such week pursuant to an interstate claim filed in any …

Sec. 31-232l. Ineligibility for extended benefits. Suitable work defined. Duties of State Employment Service. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 31-232c, for weeks of unemployment beginning after March 31, 1981, an individual shall be ineligible for payment of extended…

Sec. 31-233. Temporary extended-duration benefits. Obsolete. (March, 1958, P.A. 3, S. 1, 2.)

Sec. 31-234. Dependency allowances. Each individual who is eligible to receive benefits for unemployment with respect to any week shall be paid with respect to such week a dependency allowance of fifteen dollars for such individual's nonworking spouse, as defined by regulation, l…

Sec. 31-235. Benefit eligibility conditions; qualifications; involuntary retirees. Reemployment services. Profiling system. (a) An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if it has been found that (1) such individual has made clai…

Sec. 31-235a. Methods of payment by nonprofit organizations. Section 31-235a is repealed. (1971, P.A. 835, S. 31; P.A. 78-368, S. 10, 11.)

Sec. 31-236. Disqualifications. Exceptions. (a) An individual shall be ineligible for benefits: (1) If the administrator finds that the individual has failed without sufficient cause either to apply for available, suitable work when directed so to do by the Public Employment Bure…

Sec. 31-236a. Eligibility of apprentice unemployed due to labor dispute. Notwithstanding any provision contained in section 31-236, no apprentice duly registered as such with the state who is unemployed due to a labor dispute between his employer and journeymen who are engaged in…

Sec. 31-236b. Eligibility for benefits not impaired by reason of participation in training with commissioner's approval. Approval of programs. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions in this chapter, an otherwise eligible individual shall not be denied benefits for any week beca…

Sec. 31-236c. Ineligibility of certain board of education employees. Section 31-236c is repealed. (1971, P.A. 835, S. 17; 77-426, S. 18, 19.)

Sec. 31-236d. Eligibility of individual in training approved under the Trade Act of 1974. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an otherwise eligible individual shall not be denied unemployment compensation benefits for any week because he is in training approved u…

Sec. 31-236e. Basis for determination of eligibility. Regulations. (a) For any claim filed on or after July 1, 1986, the determination of a claimant's eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits shall be based solely on the provisions of this chapter and any regulations ad…

Sec. 31-236f. Information re the availability of unemployment compensation benefits. Procedure. The administrator, as defined in section 31-232b, in consultation with the advisory board established pursuant to section 31-250a, shall develop and implement a procedure or program to…

Sec. 31-237. Employment Security Division. (a) There shall continue to be in the Labor Department a division, to be known as the Employment Security Division, which shall be administered by a full-time, salaried, executive director, who shall be subject to the supervision and the…

Sec. 31-237a. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) “Board” means the Employment Security Board of Review; (b) “Appeals division” means the Employment Security Appeals Division consisting of the board members, the referees emplo…

Sec. 31-237b. Employment Security Appeals Division established. There shall be an appeals division which shall constitute the employment security administrative appellate system. The referee section shall be subject to the board's administrative direction, supervision and control…

Sec. 31-237c. Employment Security Board of Review. Appointment of members, chairman, alternate members. (a) The board shall consist of three members appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be designated by the Governor as chairperson of the board of review. Notwithstanding t…

Sec. 31-237d. Executive head of appeals division, delegation of his authority. Hearing of appeals to board. (a) The chairperson of the board shall be the executive head of the appeals division. The chairperson may delegate to any person employed in the appeals division such autho…

Sec. 31-237e. Employment Security Appeals Division personnel, payment, appointment. (a) The members of the board, the chief referee and the referees of the state shall each be paid from the Employment Security Administration Fund a salary to be determined by the Commissioner of A…

Sec. 31-237f. Disqualification of board member; challenge; replacements. No member of the board shall participate in the hearing or disposition of any appeal in which such member has any direct or indirect interest. Challenge to the interest of any member of the board may be made…

Sec. 31-237g. Powers of Employment Security Board of Review, rules of procedure. The board shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning the rules of procedure for the hearing and disposition of appeals under the provisions of this chapter. …

Sec. 31-237h. Access of appeals division to records of the Employment Security Division. The appeals division shall be permitted access to all records of the Employment Security Division necessary to the performance of the duties assigned to the board and the referees under this …