California Unemployment Insurance Code ARTICLE 1 - Eligibility and Disqualifications

• Section 1251.
  Unemployment compensation benefits are payable from the Unemployment Fund to unemployed individuals who are eligible under this part.(Enacted by Stats. 1953, Ch. 308.)
• Section 1252.
  (a) An individual is “unemployed” in any week in which he or she meets any of the following conditions:(1) Any week during which he or she performs...
• Section 1252.1.
  With respect to individuals hired as commercial fishermen a “totally unemployed individual” means an individual who, during a particular week, while still attached to his...
• Section 1252.2.
  With respect to individuals hired as commercial fishermen a “partially unemployed individual” means an individual who, during a particular week meets all of the following...
• Section 1253.
  An unemployed individual is eligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits with respect to any week only if the director finds that:(a) A claim for benefits with...
• Section 1253.1.
  An unemployed individual who is in all respects otherwise eligible for unemployment compensation benefits shall not be deemed ineligible for any week in which, for...
• Section 1253.12.
  An unemployed individual who is in all respects otherwise eligible for unemployment compensation benefits, shall not be deemed ineligible for any week in which:(a) For not...
• Section 1253.15.
  An unemployed individual who has been discharged from any branch of the United States armed services and who is in all respects otherwise eligible for...
• Section 1253.2.
  An unemployed individual who is in all respects otherwise eligible for unemployment compensation benefits shall not be deemed ineligible for any week in which pursuant...
• Section 1253.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and federal-state extended benefits are payable on the basis of service to...
• Section 1253.4.
  Unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and federal-state extended benefits shall not be payable to any individual on the basis of any services, substantially all...
• Section 1253.5.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (c) of Section 1253, if an individual is, in all other respects, eligible for benefits under this part, and such...
• Section 1253.6.
  For purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 1253, an unemployed individual who is in all respects otherwise eligible for unemployment compensation benefits, shall not be...
• Section 1253.7.
  For the purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 1253, an individual shall not be disqualified for any week solely because of either of the following:(a) The...
• Section 1253.8.
  An unemployed individual shall not be disqualified for eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits solely on the basis that he or she is only available for...
• Section 1253.9.
  An unemployed individual may not be disqualified for unemployment compensation benefits solely on the basis that he or she is a student. An unemployed individual...
• Section 1253.92.
  (a) An unemployed individual who meets all of the requirements under this division, including Section 1253.9, and certifies for continued unemployment compensation benefits shall not be...
• Section 1254.
  No week shall be counted as a week of unemployment under subdivision (d) of Section 1253:(a) Unless it occurs within the benefit year which includes the...
• Section 1255.
  An individual is not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits on account of unemployment for any week or part of any week with respect to which...
• Section 1255.3.
  (a) Except as provided by subdivisions (c) and (d), the amount of unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and federal-state extended benefits payable to an individual...
• Section 1255.5.
  (a) An individual is not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits or extended duration benefits for the same day or days of unemployment for which he is...
• Section 1255.7.
  (a) The Department of Child Support Services shall notify the director whether an individual filing a claim for unemployment compensation after October 1, 1982, owes support...
• Section 1256.
  An individual is disqualified for unemployment compensation benefits if the director finds that he or she left his or her most recent work voluntarily without...
• Section 1256.1.
  (a) If the employment of an individual is terminated due to his absence from work for a period in excess of 24 hours because of his...
• Section 1256.2.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), an individual who terminates his or her employment shall not be deemed to have left his or her...
• Section 1256.3.
  For the purposes of Sections 1256, 1256.1, 1256.2, 1256.4, and 1256.5, “most recent work” is that work in which a claimant last performed compensated services:(a) Prior...
• Section 1256.4.
  (a) An individual is disqualified for unemployment compensation benefits if either of the following occur:(1) The director finds that he or she was discharged from his or...
• Section 1256.5.
  (a) An individual shall be deemed to have left his or her most recent work with good cause if the director finds that he or she...
• Section 1257.
  An individual is also disqualified for unemployment compensation benefits if:(a) He or she willfully, for the purpose of obtaining unemployment compensation benefits, either made a false...
• Section 1258.
  “Suitable employment” means work in the individual’s usual occupation or for which he is reasonably fitted, regardless of whether or not it is subject to...
• Section 1258.5.
  “Suitable employment” does not include employment with an employer who does not:(a) Possess an appropriate state license to engage in his business, trade, or profession; or(b) Withhold...
• Section 1259.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division, no work or employment shall be deemed suitable and benefits shall not be denied to any otherwise eligible...
• Section 1260.
  (a) An individual disqualified under Section 1256, under a determination transmitted to him or her by the department, is ineligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits for...
• Section 1260.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, benefits shall not be denied to any individual by reason of cancellation of wage credits or total reduction...
• Section 1261.
  When successive disqualifications under Section 1257 occur, the director may extend the period of ineligibility provided for in Section 1260 for an additional period not...
• Section 1262.
  An individual is not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits, and these benefits shall not be payable to him or her, if the individual left his...
• Section 1262.5.
  Whenever the department learns that a trade dispute is in progress, the department shall promptly conduct an investigation and make investigation findings as to the...
• Section 1263.
  (a) Any individual convicted under Section 2101 by any court of competent jurisdiction of willfully making a false statement or knowingly failing to disclose a material...
• Section 1264.
  (a) (1) Unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and federal-state extended benefits shall not be payable on the basis of services performed by an alien unless the...
• Section 1265.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division, payments to an individual under a plan or system established by an employer which makes provisions for his...
• Section 1265.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, payments to an individual by an employer who has failed to provide the advance notice of facility closure...
• Section 1265.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, payments to an individual for vacation pay which was earned but not paid for services performed prior to...
• Section 1265.6.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, payments to an individual for holiday pay for any holiday occurring in a week during which the individual...
• Section 1265.7.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, payments to an individual for sick pay which was earned but not paid for services performed prior to...
• Section 1265.9.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, payments for severance pay or terminal pay to an individual who is terminated from his or her employment...

Last modified: October 22, 2018