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Job Refusal In Unemployment Compensation Claims, Robert J. Bowers Jan 1964

Job Refusal In Unemployment Compensation Claims, Robert J. Bowers

Cleveland State Law Review

Unemployment compensation is a type of insurance. As such, it does not cover losses intentionally incurred by claimants. However, the spirit of the Social Security Act of 1935 and of similar laws enacted in all the states affect the qualification or disqualification of a claimant who refuses a job. The broad discretionary powers of administrators and boards of review preclude definitive answer. We must be content with awareness of the tolerance limits indicated by stare decisis and commission rules.

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Justice Murphy And The Welfare Question, Leo Weiss Feb 1955

Justice Murphy And The Welfare Question, Leo Weiss

Michigan Law Review

In 1941, an Italian law professor arrived in the United States to make his home here. Born in Russia during Czarist days, he was educated in Austria, England, and Italy, finally settling there and becoming a citizen. A member of the Italian bar and teacher of law at the Universities of Florence and Rome, he found himself in 1939 unwanted in his adopted homeland. He went to France, where he practiced law until coming to this country. In New York City he joined the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, remaining in that post for five years, …

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The Employment Security Program (With Special Reference To Tennessee Unemployment Insurance), E.J. Eberling Apr 1948

The Employment Security Program (With Special Reference To Tennessee Unemployment Insurance), E.J. Eberling

Vanderbilt Law Review

Employment security was one of the major programs for which provision was made in the Social Security Act of 1935. Under its terms a tax program was instituted which encouraged the states to enact unemployment insurance laws and expand their employment services. The Act imposed a federal tax on the payrolls of subject employers against which such employers were permitted to offset the major part of the taxes which they paid under state unemployment insurance laws. Since employers in states which did not enact appropriate insurance laws were liable for the full federal tax, the states acted speedily to set …

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Legislation - Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Act Mar 1932

Legislation - Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Act

Michigan Law Review

Culminating years of activity in its state legislature, Wisconsin on January twenty-eighth adopted the Groves Bill (Bill No. 8, A) providing for compulsory unemployment insurance, the first legislation of the sort to be enacted in the United States. For a discussion of unemployment insurance measures introduced at the 1931 legislatures see 30 MICH. L. REV. 410 (January, 1932). The compulsory plan is to become operative July 1, 1933, unless Wisconsin employers employing more than 175,000 workers in the state have by that date established approved voluntary insurance systems.

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