Title 421, EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

Sec. 11a. An individual who testifies voluntarily before another body concerning representations the individual made to the unemployment agency pursuant to the administration of this act waives any privilege under section 11 otherwise applying to the individual's representations …

Sec. 12. This state hereby accepts the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser act. The state employment service is established in the employment security commission which shall be so administered as to cooperate with any federal agency charged with the administration of the Wagner-Peyse…

Sec. 12a. Any person, whether paid a wage, allowance or stipend, or a combination thereof, engaged in a community work or training program or work experience program, whether private or public, and whether it is conducted by a profit or nonprofit organization, sponsored or conduc…

Sec. 13. (1) Each employer subject to this act shall pay to the unemployment agency a tax in the form of payments in lieu of contributions if the employer is liable for those payments, or shall pay tax contributions equal to a standard rate of 5.4%, subject to an adjustment in ra…

Sec. 13a. (1) Any nonprofit organization which is, or becomes, subject to this act after December 31, 1971, shall pay contributions as a contributing employer pursuant to section 13, unless it elects to make reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions as a reimbursing employe…

Sec. 13b. (1) A nonprofit organization which makes an election in accordance with section 13a(2) or (3) shall continue to be liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions until it files with the commission a written notice terminating its status as a reimbursing empl…

Sec. 13c. (1) A nonprofit organization or group of nonprofit organizations which is liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions shall pay to the commission an amount equal to the full amount of regular benefits plus the amount of extended benefits and training bene…

Sec. 13d. If a nonprofit organization is delinquent in making reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions as required pursuant to sections 13a to 13c, the commission may terminate the organization's election to make reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions as of the be…

Sec. 13e. (1) Two or more employers who become liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions pursuant to sections 13a to 13c, or after December 31, 1977, 2 or more employers who become liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions pursuant to section 13i…

Sec. 13f. (1) For benefit years established before the conversion date prescribed in section 75, the benefits paid on the basis of credit weeks earned with a nonprofit organization while it was a reimbursing employer shall be reimbursed by the nonprofit organization pursuant to s…

Sec. 13g. (1) The state, as a reimbursing employer, is liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions and shall pay to the commission an amount equal to the full amount of regular benefits plus the amount of extended benefits and training benefits paid during any cale…

Sec. 13h. Except where otherwise provided or where the context clearly requires otherwise, the terms, conditions, rules and regulations which apply to contributions and contributing employers under this act shall also apply to reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions and r…

Sec. 13i. (1) Except as provided in section 13g, a governmental entity which: (a) Is, or becomes subject to this act after December 31, 1974, shall make reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions as a reimbursing employer for not less than 2 calendar years beginning January …

Sec. 13k. (1) Except as provided in section 13g, a governmental entity which is liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions shall pay to the commission an amount equal to the full amount of regular benefits plus the amount of extended benefits and training benefits…

Sec. 13l. (1) An Indian tribe or tribal unit liable as an employer under section 41 shall pay reimbursements in lieu of contributions under the same terms and conditions as all other reimbursing employers liable under section 41, unless the Indian tribe or tribal unit elects to p…

Sec. 13m. (1) A professional employer organization that has not previously filed shall file a report with the agency in accordance with R 421.121 and R 421.190 of the Michigan administrative code for a determination of its status as a liable employing unit and employer under this…

Sec. 14. The commission, after affording reasonable opportunity for the submission of relevant information in writing or in person, may make determinations with respect to whether an employing unit constitutes an employer and whether services performed for or in connection with t…

Sec. 15. (a) Contributions unpaid on the date on which they are due and payable, as prescribed by the unemployment agency, and unpaid restitution of benefit overpayments, except as otherwise provided under this subsection, bear interest at the rate of 1% per month, computed on a …

Sec. 15a. (1) The unemployment agency shall not collect interest on a contribution obligation that an employer pays through apportioned quarterly payments, if the employer meets the requirements of section 13(3) and has remitted the following amounts or more each quarter by the d…

Sec. 16. If not later than 3 years after the date of payment of any amount as contributions or interest thereon, an employing unit which has paid such amount shall make application for an adjustment or refund thereof the commission shall determine whether such contributions or in…

Sec. 17. (1) The unemployment agency shall maintain in the unemployment compensation fund a nonchargeable benefits account and a separate experience account for each employer as provided in this section. This act does not give an employer or individuals in the employer's service …

Sec. 18. As used in this act: (a) "Computation date" means June 30 of each year. (b) "Balance" means: (1) As applied to an employer's experience account or to the nonchargeable benefits account, the initial balance of that account plus the credits and minus the charges that are m…

Sec. 19. (a) The commission shall determine the contribution rate of each contributing employer for each calendar year after 1977 as follows: (1)(i) Except as provided in paragraph (ii), an employer's rate shall be calculated as described in table A, A-1, or A-2 with respect to w…

Sec. 19a. (1) Except for the first 4 consecutive years of liability, a contributing employer is subject to a solvency tax for a calendar year after 1982 if the employer's experience account has a negative balance on the June 30 preceding that calendar year, and if on the June 30 …

Sec. 2. (1) The legislature acting in the exercise of the police power of the state declares that the public policy of the state is as follows: Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state. Involuntary …

Sec. 20. (a) The following apply to benefits paid: (1) Benefits paid must be charged against the employer's account as of the quarter in which the payments are made. If the unemployment agency determines that any benefits charged against an employer's account were improperly paid…

Sec. 20a. Benefits paid on or prior to June 30 of any year, under a determination, redetermination or decision which is the subject of timely protest or appeal under this act, on which final disposition has not been made by August 31 of such year, shall be charged to a suspense a…

Sec. 21. (a) The commission shall currently provide each employer with copies or listings of the benefit checks charged against that employer's account. An employer determined by the agency to be a successor employer shall begin receiving the listings effective for weeks beginnin…

Sec. 21a. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, benefit charges and contributions attributable to services performed under the comprehensive employment and training act of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 801 to 992, in public service employment, referred to in this sec…

Sec. 21b. A seaman employed on an American vessel operating on the Great Lakes shall be entitled to benefits under this act. An offer of employment to a seaman need not be the individual's customary occupation under conditions of employment and remuneration substantially equivale…

Sec. 22. (a) If an employer subject to this act transfers any of the assets of the business by any means otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade and there is not substantially common ownership, management, or control of the transferor and the transferee, the transfer shall…

Sec. 22a. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, an employer who transfers all or a segregable part of his or her operations from another state to this state for the purposes of this section shall be deemed to be a qualified employer within the meaning of section 19…

Sec. 22b. (1) A person shall not do either of the following: (a) Transfer the person's trade or business or a portion of the trade or business to another employer for the sole or primary purpose of reducing the contribution rate or reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions …

Sec. 23. Except as otherwise provided in sections 24 and 25, any employing unit which becomes an employer subject to this act within any calendar year shall be subject to this act during the whole of such calendar year.

Sec. 24. Except as otherwise provided in section 25, an employing unit shall cease to be an employer subject to this act as provided in this section: (a) If an employing unit that became liable under section 41 makes written application for termination of its coverage under this …

Sec. 25. (1) An employing unit for which services are performed that do not constitute employment as defined in this act may file with the commission a written election that all such services performed by individuals in its employ in 1 or more distinct establishments or places of…

Sec. 26. (a) There is established as a special fund, separate and apart from all public money or funds of this state, an unemployment compensation fund, herein referred to as the fund, which shall be administered by the commission exclusively for the purposes of this act. The fun…

Sec. 26a. (1) The director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs may request the Michigan finance authority to issue notes, bonds, financial instruments, or other evidences of indebtedness, the proceeds of which may be used for any of the following purposes: (a) T…

Sec. 27. (a)(1) When a determination, redetermination, or decision is made that benefits are due an unemployed individual, the benefits become payable from the fund and continue to be payable to the unemployed individual, subject to the limitations imposed by the individual's mon…

Sec. 27a. When an individual has had a period of unemployment: (i) for which he has been paid benefits for 1 or more weeks or has received credit for a waiting week, (ii) which commenced with a layoff by an employing unit that continued with such employing unit for more than 3 we…

Sec. 27b. (1) Beginning January 1, 1997, an individual filing a claim for unemployment benefits that establishes a new benefit year shall, at the time of filing the claim, be advised of all of the following: (a) That unemployment benefits are subject to federal and state income t…

Sec 27c. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, for benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000 and before January 1, 2014, if a base period contributing employer notifies the agency that it paid gross wages to a claimant in a week at least equal to the employer…

Sec. 28. (1) An unemployed individual is eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the unemployment insurance agency finds all of the following: (a) The individual registered for work pursuant to subsection (11) after the individual applied for benefits and wi…

Sec. 28a. (1) For benefit years beginning before the conversion date prescribed in section 75, and notwithstanding any other provision of this act, an unemployed individual who has a benefit year in effect and who has not exhausted benefit entitlement may have unused credit weeks…

Sec. 28b. As used in this section and sections 28c to 28m: (a) "Affected unit" means a department, shift, or other organizational unit of 2 or more employees that is designated by an employer to participate in a shared-work plan. (b) "Approved shared-work plan" means an employer'…

Sec. 28c. (1) An employer that meets all of the following requirements may apply to the unemployment agency for approval of a shared-work plan: (a) The employer has filed all quarterly reports and other reports required under this act and has paid all obligation assessments, cont…