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PRINTER'S NO. 4492
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2914
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY LONGIETTI, MADDEN, HILL-EVANS, HOWARD, DeLUCA,
KENYATTA, GALLOWAY, CIRESI, SANCHEZ, ROZZI, HOHENSTEIN,
DRISCOLL, READSHAW AND GREEN, OCTOBER 7, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, OCTOBER 7, 2020
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937
P.L.2897, No.1), entitled "An act establishing a system of
unemployment compensation to be administered by the
Department of Labor and Industry and its existing and newly
created agencies with personnel (with certain exceptions)
selected on a civil service basis; requiring employers to
keep records and make reports, and certain employers to pay
contributions based on payrolls to provide moneys for the
payment of compensation to certain unemployed persons;
providing procedure and administrative details for the
determination, payment and collection of such contributions
and the payment of such compensation; providing for
cooperation with the Federal Government and its agencies;
creating certain special funds in the custody of the State
Treasurer; and prescribing penalties," in preliminary
provisions, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4(u) of the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd
Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment
Compensation Law, is amended to read:
Section 4. Definitions.--The following words and phrases, as
used in this act, shall have the following meanings, unless the
context clearly requires otherwise.
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(u) "Unemployed."--An individual shall be deemed unemployed
(I) with respect to any week (i) during which he performs no
services for which remuneration is paid or payable to him and
(ii) with respect to which no remuneration is paid or payable to
him, or (II) with respect to any week of [less than his full-
time] work if the remuneration paid or payable to him with
respect to such week is less than his weekly benefit rate plus
his partial benefit credit[.], except that an individual shall
not be eligible for benefits that are determined to be the
liability of a current full-time employer where the claimant is
actively performing services for which remuneration is paid or
payable to him.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, an employe
who is unemployed during a plant shutdown for vacation purposes
shall not be deemed ineligible for compensation merely by reason
of the fact that he or his collective bargaining agents agreed
to the vacation.
No employe shall be deemed eligible for compensation during a
plant shutdown for vacation who receives directly or indirectly
any funds from the employer as vacation allowance.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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