{"id":901,"date":"2020-03-12T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:00:29","slug":"coronavirus-and-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/coronavirus-and-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus and Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The US DOL released guidelines available to all States as to how unemployment matters should be approached with regard to COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a few main scenarios:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Employer temporarily ceases operations – In this scenario the federal law would permit states to treat this as a layoff. It is up to each of the states to determine if the claimant is able and available, and if the individual intends to return to work after the employer resumes operations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The individual is quarantined and will return to the employer – the state can treat the quarantine period as a layoff under federal law, however once the quarantine ends the individual must return in the same capacity as before, otherwise they may be eligible for partial benefits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. An individual does not return to the employer after a quarantine – This will be determined on a state by state, and case by case basis. Federal law permits a state to rule this as a quit or discharge under good cause\/just cause provisions. States can consider the reasonableness of an individual’s separate for reasonable risk of exposure to COVID-19. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Some states are considering non-charging provisions to employers in the context of the COVID-19 virus, however there has not been any official announcements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For more information on how Dunn Corporate Resources can help your organization reduce your unemployment tax expense, contact us<\/a> today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The US DOL released guidelines available to all States as to how unemployment matters should be approached with regard to COVID-19. There are a few main scenarios: Some states are considering non-charging provisions to employers in the context of the COVID-19 virus, however there has not been any official announcements. For more information on how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}