1998 Minnesota Statutes

     268.125 Additional reemployment insurance benefits. 

    Subdivision 1.    Additional benefits; when available.  
 Additional reemployment insurance benefits are authorized if: 

    (1) at a facility that had 100 or more employees for at 
 least six months during the prior 12 months, the employer 
 reduced operations, resulting within a one-month period in the 
 layoff of 50 percent or more of the facility's work force 
 amounting to 50 or more employees, including reductions caused 
 as a result of a major natural disaster declared by the 
 president; 

    (2) the employer has no expressed plan to resume operations 
 that would lead to the reemployment of those employees at any 
 time in the immediate future; and 

    (3) the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the county 
 that the facility is located was ten percent or more during the 
 month of the reduction or any of the three months before or 
 after the month of the reduction. 

    Subd. 2.    Payment of benefits.  Additional benefits 
 are payable from the fund.  

    Subd. 3.    Eligibility conditions.  A claimant is 
 eligible to receive additional benefits for any week during the 
 claimant's benefit year if: 

    (1) the claimant was laid off from employment as a result 
 of a reduction under subdivision 1 or was laid off due to lack 
 of work from that employer during the three-month period before, 
 or the three-month period after, the month of the reduction 
 under subdivision 1; 

    (2) the claimant meets the eligibility requirements under 
 section 268.085; 

    (3) the claimant is not subject to a disqualification under 
 section 268.095; for the purpose of this subdivision, the 
 disqualifying conditions in section 268.095, and the 
 requalifying requirements, apply to the receipt of additional 
 benefits; 

    (4) the claimant has exhausted regular benefits under 
 section 268.07, is not entitled to receive extended benefits 
 under section 268.115, and is not entitled to receive benefits 
 under any other state or federal law for that week; 

    (5) a majority of the claimant's wage credits were from the 
 employer that had a reduction in operations under subdivision 1. 

    Subd. 4.    Weekly benefit amount.  A claimant's weekly 
 benefit amount shall be the same as the claimant's weekly 
 benefit amount during the current benefit year under section 
 268.07. 

    Subd. 5.    Maximum benefits payable.  The maximum 
 amount of additional benefits payable in the claimant's benefit 
 year shall be 13 times the claimant's weekly benefit amount.  
 Benefits paid to a claimant under any state or federal law other 
 than regular benefits under section 268.07 shall be deducted 
 from the maximum amount of additional benefits. 

    HIST: 1987 c 362 s 17; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1994 c 503 s 1-3; 1996 
 c 417 s 13-15; 1997 c 66 s 79; 2Sp1997 c 2 s 18,19; 1998 c 265 s 
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