Title 22, LABOR AND SAFETY

Sec. 1. (a) For the purpose of charging employers' experience or reimbursable accounts with regular benefits paid subsequent to July 3, 1971, to any eligible individual but except as provided in IC 22-4-22 and subsection (f), such benefits paid shall be charged proportionately ag…

Sec. 1.5. (a) As used in this section, "erroneous payment" means a payment that would not have been made but for the failure by an employer or a person acting on behalf of the employer with respect to a claim for unemployment benefits to which the payment relates. (b) As used in …

Sec. 10. (a) Merit rate calculations begin with the allocation of the pool account to employers. Employers are notified of the mutualized benefit charges on the annual merit rate notice. Mutualized benefit charges are nonprotestable. (b) Any employer with: (1) outstanding liabili…

Sec. 11. (a) If a city or town had previously been a covered employer to the extent of its municipal utilities, the utilities will pay contributions at their computed rate, but the rate will not exceed the prescribed rate under section 2(c) of this chapter. (b) If, by statute, a …

Sec. 12. (a) The department may accelerate contribution payments under IC 22-4-10-1(a). When the department determines that contribution payments should be accelerated under the conditions set forth by statute, each subject employer will be notified not fewer than thirty (30) day…

Sec. 13. Any employer that makes an election to reimburse benefit charges under IC 22-4-10-1 will continue to be liable for payments in lieu of contributions until the employer files a written request to terminate its election. If the department approves the election, the employe…

Sec. 14. (a) Where the status of an employer is changed by cessation or disposition of a business or an appointment of a receiver, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, or other fiduciary, the following apply: (1) The employer shall immediately notify the department in the manner and o…

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in IC 22-4-10-6 and IC 22-4-11.5, the department shall for each year determine the contribution rate applicable to each employer. (b) The balance shall include contributions with respect to the period ending on the computation date and actually paid…

Sec. 3. (a) The applicable schedule of rates for calendar years before January 1, 2011, shall be determined by the ratio resulting when the balance in the fund as of the determination date is divided by the total payroll of all subject employers for the immediately preceding cale…

Sec. 3.3. (a) For calendar years after 2001 and before 2011, if the conditions of section 2 of this chapter are met, the rate of contributions shall be determined and assigned, with respect to each calendar year, to employers whose accounts have a credit balance and who are eligi…

Sec. 3.5. (a) For calendar years after 2010 and before 2021, if the conditions of section 2 of this chapter are met, the rate of contributions shall be determined and assigned, with respect to each calendar year, to employers whose accounts have a credit balance and who are there…

Sec. 3.7. (a) For calendar years after 2020, if the conditions of section 2 of this chapter are met, the rate of contributions shall be determined and assigned, with respect to each calendar year, to employers whose accounts have a credit balance and who are therefore eligible ac…

Sec. 4. If the commissioner finds that any employer has failed to file any payroll report or has filed a report which the commissioner finds incorrect or insufficient, the commissioner shall make an estimate of the information required from the employer on the basis of the best e…

Sec. 5. (a) Every employer subject to this article shall report the following information to the department in the form and manner prescribed by the department: (1) Federal employer identification number assigned to the employer by the Internal Revenue Service. (2) Total gross wa…

Sec. 6. (a) Each employer shall ascertain the Social Security number or individual taxpayer identification number of each employee and include the employee's name and Social Security number or individual taxpayer identification number in any report filed under this article with t…

Sec. 7. (a) If an employer has incurred no payroll, and no contributions are due for a particular quarter, the employer's quarterly wage and employment report may be marked "nothing to report" in the form and manner required by the department in lieu of completing the report with…

Sec. 8. (a) If an employer fails to timely submit quarterly wage and employment reports, the department shall determine whether to estimate employer contributions. The following circumstances relate to a contribution estimation by the department: (1) An employer's contact with ot…

Sec. 9. (a) An employer shall be subject to the penalty rate, as established under section 2 of this chapter, if either of the following occur: (1) The employer fails to file any required quarterly wage and employment report. (2) The employer fails to pay the contributions, surch…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "competitive integrated employment" has the meaning set forth in 34 CFR 361.5(c)(9). As added by P.L.68-2017, SEC.4.

Sec. 10. This chapter may be cited as the Indiana Employment First Act. As added by P.L.68-2017, SEC.4.

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "individual with a disability" or "individuals with disabilities" has the meaning set forth in 34 CFR 361.5(c)(27). As added by P.L.68-2017, SEC.4.

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "informed choice" means the process by which an individual chooses from all available options following the receipt of appropriate information, experience, and knowledge that may be obtained through the following activities: (1) Reviewing informat…

Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "self-employment" means a business, profession, or trade owned by an individual and through which the individual earns income directly through the individual's own efforts and not as an employee of a business, profession, or trade owned by another…

Sec. 5. (a) As used in this chapter, "state agency" means an authority, a board, a branch, a commission, a committee, a department, a division, or another instrumentality of the executive, including the administrative department of state government, including the following: (1) A…

Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, "transition services" has the meaning set forth in 20 U.S.C. 1401(34). As added by P.L.68-2017, SEC.4.

Sec. 7. (a) It is the policy of the state to advance competitive integrated employment, including self-employment, as the first and preferred option when providing services to an individual with disabilities who is of working age, regardless of the nature or the severity of the i…

Sec. 8. (a) This section applies to transition services provided as part of a special education program or related services to a child with a disability who is at least fourteen (14) years of age. (b) The primary objective and preferred outcome of providing the services described…

Sec. 9. (a) State agencies shall coordinate efforts and collaborate within and among the agencies to ensure that state programs, policies, procedures, and funding support competitive and integrated employment of individuals with disabilities. (b) Whenever feasible, state agencies…

Sec. 0.1. The addition of this chapter by P.L.14-1994 affects final appealable orders issued by the commission on or after July 1, 1994. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.371.

Sec. 1. Either party to a dispute filed under IC 22-9.5 may, not more than thirty (30) days after the date of receipt of the commission's final appealable order, appeal to the court of appeals under the same terms, conditions, and standards that govern appeals in ordinary civil a…

Sec. 2. (a) The appealing party shall notify the commission in writing of the party's intent to appeal and shall request the commission to prepare a record of the commission's proceedings to be used to perfect an appeal. The record consists of the following documents used, create…

Sec. 3. A person may file an appeal under this chapter only after exhausting all administrative remedies available within the agency whose action is being appealed. As added by P.L.14-1994, SEC.9.