Michigan Compiled Laws Act 1 Of 1936 (Ex. Sess.) Michigan Employment Security Act (421.1 - 421.75)

• Section 421.1 Michigan Employment Security Act; Short Title.
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Michigan employment security act.” Wherever in this act reference is made to the...
• Section 421.2 Declaration Of Public Policy; Findings.
  (1) The legislature acting in the exercise of the police power of the state declares that the public policy of the state is as...
• Section 421.3 Bureau Of Worker's And Unemployment Compensation; Policies; Definitions.
  (1) The bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation shall establish policies in conformity with this act to do all of the following: (a) Reduce...
• Section 421.3a Michigan Employment Security Advisory Council; Creation; Appointment, Qualifications, And Terms Of Members; Vacancies; Compensation; Expenses; Recommendations; Assistance And Studies.
  (1) There is created an advisory council which shall be known as the Michigan employment security advisory council, consisting of 11 members who are...
• Section 421.3b Repealed. 2002, Act 192, Imd. Eff. Apr. 26, 2002.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to meetings conducted by Michigan employment security commission.
• Section 421.4 Rules And Regulations; Distribution; Public Hearing; Notice; Publication; Copies Furnished; Effective Date.
  (1) The bureau may promulgate rules and regulations that it determines necessary, and that are not inconsistent with this act, to carry out this...
• Section 421.4a Parking Facility; Approval Of State Administrative Board.
  The bureau may acquire, purchase, erect, or improve land or buildings, within funds available for that purpose, as it considers necessary for use as...
• Section 421.5 Employment Security Commission; Director; Appointment, Term, And Duties; Annual Salary; Employees And Assistants; Delegation Of Authority; Compensation And Expenses; Bond; Appointment And Qualifications Of Persons To Assist Employers And Represent Claimants.
  (1) The commission by affirmative vote of not less than 3 of its members shall appoint an administrative officer, hereinafter referred to as the...
• Section 421.5a Advocacy Assistance Program.
  (1) For calendar years beginning January 1, 1994 and ending December 31, 1998, the commission shall develop and implement a program to provide, upon...
• Section 421.5b Bureau Of Worker's And Unemployment Compensation; Creation Within Department Of Consumer And Industry Services; Director; Transfer Of Powers And Duties By Executive Order.
  (1) The bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation is created within the department of consumer and industry services. (2) The bureau shall be headed...
• Section 421.6 Conversion To Wage Record System; Assistance Of Ad Hoc Committees; Administrative Costs.
  (1) The director of the commission shall appoint individuals to serve on ad hoc committees to oversee the implementation of an educational plan to...
• Section 421.6a Unemployment Insurance Agency; Destruction Or Disposal Of Documents; Admissibility Of Reproduction As Evidence.
  The unemployment insurance agency may destroy or dispose of a document as soon as practicable after the document has been electronically captured and preserved...
• Section 421.6b Appropriation For Continuing Work On Unemployment Insurance Computer System Improvement And Capacity Extension Project; Staff Training; Appointment, Membership, And Duties Of Computer Project Oversight Committee; Reversion Of Unexpended Funds; Work Project.
  (1) The $19,450,000.00 appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990 from the penalty and interest account in the contingent fund shall be...
• Section 421.6c Emergency Backup Plan For Computer System.
  (1) Within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the commission by an affirmative majority vote of...
• Section 421.6d Stabilization Fund.
  (1) A stabilization fund is established for the purpose of offsetting the effects on state budgeted staffing levels due to unanticipated cuts in federal...
• Section 421.6e Employee Training Program; Operation; Funding; Purpose.
  The commission shall operate an employee training program which shall be funded in the amount of $1,000,000.00 each year from the penalty and interest...
• Section 421.6f Appropriation To Fund Improvements; Expenditure; Work Project.
  (1) The $2,700,000.00 appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, from the penalty and interest account in the contingent fund to fund...
• Section 421.6g Securing Automated Systems For Fraud Control And Collections Division; Fraud Control And Investigation; Funding; Work Project.
  (1) The $425,000.00 appropriated from the penalty and interest account in the contingent fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, shall be...
• Section 421.7 Employment Security Commission; Consolidation Of Divisions.
  Same; the commission may consolidate its employment service division and its unemployment compensation division. History: 1936, Ex. Sess., Act 1, Imd. Eff. Dec. 24,...
• Section 421.8 Legislative Purpose; Annual Review Of Maximum Weekly Benefit Rates; Comparison Of Consumers' Price Index; “base Month” Defined; Determining Percentage Of Increase Or Decrease; Report.
  A basic purpose of this act is to lighten the burden of involuntary unemployment on the unemployed worker and his family. In view of...
• Section 421.9 Employment Security Commission; Subpoenas, Issuance; Enforcement; Immunity.
  The commission may by itself, or by its duly appointed agents, examine or copy the books, records and papers of any employing unit relating...
• Section 421.10 Administration Fund; Contingent Fund.
  (1) There is created in the department of treasury a special fund to be known and designated as the administration fund (Michigan employment security...
• Section 421.10a Obligation Trust Fund; Creation; Receipt And Deposit Of Money Or Other Assets; Investment; Money Remaining In Fund; Administrator; Expenditures; Purpose.
  (1) The obligation trust fund is created as a separate fund in the state treasury. The assets of the obligation trust fund shall not...
• Section 421.11 Employment Security Commission; Cooperation With Federal Agency; Reports; Compliance With Federal Regulations; "Social Security Act" Defined; Disclosure Of Information; Reciprocal Agreements.
  (a) In the administration of this act, the commission shall cooperate with the appropriate agency of the United States under the social security act....
• Section 421.11a Privilege; Waiver.
  An individual who testifies voluntarily before another body concerning representations the individual made to the unemployment agency pursuant to the administration of this act...
• Section 421.12 Acceptance Of Wagner-peyser Act.
  This state hereby accepts the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser act. The state employment service is established in the employment security commission which shall be...
• Section 421.12a Employment Security; Community Work Or Training Program; Employee Benefits.
  Any person, whether paid a wage, allowance or stipend, or a combination thereof, engaged in a community work or training program or work experience...
• Section 421.13 Contributions Of Employer; Rate; Obligation Assessment Payment; Computation And Payment; Reports; Quarterly Wage Report; Apportioned Payments; Applicability Of Subsection (3) To Contributions Beginning 2013 Tax Year.
  (1) Each employer subject to this act shall pay to the unemployment agency a tax in the form of payments in lieu of contributions...
• Section 421.13a Contributions Of Nonprofit Organizations; Reimbursement Payments In Lieu Of Contributions; “nonprofit Organization” Defined; Notice Of Election To Become Reimbursing Employer; Surety Bond, Irrevocable Letter Of Credit, Or Other Security; Applicability Of Subsection (4).
  (1) Any nonprofit organization which is, or becomes, subject to this act after December 31, 1971, shall pay contributions as a contributing employer pursuant...
• Section 421.13b Liability Of Nonprofit Organization For Reimbursement Payments In Lieu Of Contributions; Termination Of Status As Reimbursing Employer; Notice Of Termination; Election To Become Reimbursing Employer; Notice Of Election; Termination Of Election; Extension Of Time; Determination Of Status As Employer.
  (1) A nonprofit organization which makes an election in accordance with section 13a(2) or (3) shall continue to be liable for reimbursement payments in...
• Section 421.13c Payments By Nonprofit Organization To Commission; Computation; Statement Of Charges; Past Due Reimbursement Payments.
  (1) A nonprofit organization or group of nonprofit organizations which is liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions shall pay to the commission...
• Section 421.13d Delinquency Of Nonprofit Organization In Making Reimbursement Payments; Termination Of Election; Surety Bond, Irrevocable Letter Of Credit, Or Other Security.
  If a nonprofit organization is delinquent in making reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions as required pursuant to sections 13a to 13c, the commission...
• Section 421.13e Group Account For Sharing Cost Of Benefits; Joint Application; Approval; Notice; Duration; Termination; Adding Employer To Or Removing Employer From Group Account; Liability For Benefit Charges; Effective Date And Application Of Amendatory Provision.
  (1) Two or more employers who become liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions pursuant to sections 13a to 13c, or after December...
• Section 421.13f Reimbursement By Nonprofit Organization Of Benefits Paid; Charging Benefits Paid To Rating Account Of Nonprofit Organization.
  (1) For benefit years established before the conversion date prescribed in section 75, the benefits paid on the basis of credit weeks earned with...
• Section 421.13g Reimbursement Payments By State In Lieu Of Contributions; Amount, Time, And Manner Of Payments; Separate Accounts; Funds To Which Reimbursement Payments Charged; Liability For Reimbursement Payments; Election To Be Reimbursing Employer; Reimbursement Of Benefits; Charging Benefits To Experience Account; Past Due Reimbursement Payments.
  (1) The state, as a reimbursing employer, is liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions and shall pay to the commission an amount...
• Section 421.13h Provisions Applicable To Reimbursement Payments In Lieu Of Contributions And Reimbursing Employers.
  Except where otherwise provided or where the context clearly requires otherwise, the terms, conditions, rules and regulations which apply to contributions and contributing employers...
• Section 421.13i Governmental Entity As Reimbursing Employer Or Contributing Employer; Election; Notice; Termination Of Election; Liability For Reimbursement Payments; Notice Terminating Status; Extension Of Period For Filing Notice Of Election; Determination Of Status As Employer, Effective Date Of Election, And Termination Of Prior Election.
  (1) Except as provided in section 13g, a governmental entity which: (a) Is, or becomes subject to this act after December 31, 1974, shall...
• Section 421.13j Repealed. 1977, Act 277, Eff. Jan. 1, 1978.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to effect of local unemployment compensation system within political subdivision.Section 3 of Act 277 of 1977 provides:“Section 13j of...
• Section 421.13k Payment By Governmental Entity Of Regular Benefits Plus Extended Benefits And Training Benefits; Ascertainment Of Amount; Statement Of Charges; Reimbursement Of Fund; Past Due Reimbursement Payments; Liability For And Payment Of Contributions; Delinquency; Termination Of Election; Reimbursement Of Benefits; Charging Benefits To Experience Account.
  (1) Except as provided in section 13g, a governmental entity which is liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions shall pay to the...
• Section 421.13l Indian Tribe Or Tribal Unit As Employer; Requirements.
  (1) An Indian tribe or tribal unit liable as an employer under section 41 shall pay reimbursements in lieu of contributions under the same...
• Section 421.13m Professional Employer Organization; Determination Of Status As Liable Employer; Reporting Of Wages And Payment Of Unemployment Contributions; Requirements; Act Or Omission Occurring Before January 1, 2011; "Professional Employer Organization" Defined.
  (1) A professional employer organization that has not previously filed shall file a report with the agency in accordance with R 421.121 and R...
• Section 421.14 Employing Unit As Employer And Services As Employment; Determinations; Notice; Review And Redetermination; Collection Of Contributions; Retroactive Determination; Introduction Of Determination, Redetermination, Or Decision In Proceeding Involving Claim For Benefits.
  The commission, after affording reasonable opportunity for the submission of relevant information in writing or in person, may make determinations with respect to whether...
• Section 421.15 Delinquent Contributions.
  (a) Contributions unpaid on the date on which they are due and payable, as prescribed by the unemployment agency, and unpaid restitution of benefit...
• Section 421.15a Apportioned Quarterly Payments; Interest On Contribution Obligation Not Required; Failure To Make Payment.
  (1) The unemployment agency shall not collect interest on a contribution obligation that an employer pays through apportioned quarterly payments, if the employer meets...
• Section 421.15b Repealed. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section provided for fees for registering certain liens and recording the discharge.
• Section 421.16 Adjustment Or Refund Of Contributions Or Interest.
  If not later than 3 years after the date of payment of any amount as contributions or interest thereon, an employing unit which has...
• Section 421.17 Nonchargeable Benefits Account; Experience Account; Pooling Of Contributions; Credits.
  (1) The unemployment agency shall maintain in the unemployment compensation fund a nonchargeable benefits account and a separate experience account for each employer as...
• Section 421.18 Definitions.
  As used in this act: (a) “Computation date” means June 30 of each year. (b) “Balance” means: (1) As applied to an employer's experience...
• Section 421.19 Contribution Rate Of Contributing Employer; Determination; Reserve Fund Balance Of Reorganized Employer; Distressed Employer; Irrevocability Of Excess Payments To Experience Account.
  (a) The commission shall determine the contribution rate of each contributing employer for each calendar year after 1977 as follows: (1)(i) Except as provided...
• Section 421.19a Solvency Tax; Determination; Payment; Deferral; Appropriation; Repayment; Payment Of Amounts Obtained Into Contingent Fund; Crediting Amounts To Employers' Experience Accounts; Past Due Payments; Interest And Penalties; Adjustments And Refunds; Appeals; Qualification For Federal Interest Relief Provisions And Federal Unemployment Tax Credits; Forgiveness Or Postponement Of Interest.
  (1) Except for the first 4 consecutive years of liability, a contributing employer is subject to a solvency tax for a calendar year after...
• Section 421.20 Charging Benefits Against Employer's Account; Benefits Improperly Paid; Basis; Failure Of Employer To Provide Information; Separate Determination Of Amount And Duration Of Benefits; Separating Employer; Limitation On Charges For Regular Benefits; Training Benefits And Extended Benefits; Notice Of Charges; Listing; Spouse As Full-time Member Of United States Armed Forces.
  (a) Benefits paid shall be charged against the employer's account as of the quarter in which the payments are made. If the unemployment agency...
• Section 421.20a Benefits Paid Under Protest Or Appeal; Charge To Suspense Account; Transfer To Rating Account Or Solvency Account.
  Benefits paid on or prior to June 30 of any year, under a determination, redetermination or decision which is the subject of timely protest...
• Section 421.21 Copies Or Listings Of Benefit Checks Charged Against Employer's Account; Copies As Final Determination; Statement Of Total Benefits Charged Against Rating Account; Notice To Employer Of Contribution Rate; Finality Of Statement Or Determination; Extension; Review And Redetermination; Appeal; Hearing; Adjustment Of Contribution.
  (a) The commission shall currently provide each employer with copies or listings of the benefit checks charged against that employer's account. An employer determined...
• Section 421.21a Allocation Of Benefit Charges And Contributions Attributable To Service Performed Under Ceta-pse.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, benefit charges and contributions attributable to services performed under the comprehensive employment and training act of...
• Section 421.21b Seamen On American Vessel On Great Lakes; Benefits; Seamen, Definition.
  A seaman employed on an American vessel operating on the Great Lakes shall be entitled to benefits under this act. An offer of employment...
• Section 421.22 Transfer Of Business.
  (a) If an employer subject to this act transfers any of the assets of the business by any means otherwise than in the ordinary...
• Section 421.22a Transfer Of Operations From Another State To This State; Conditions To Being Deemed Qualified Employer; Withdrawing Request For Application Of Section; Furnishing Information To Commission; Wages, Contributions, And Benefits Deemed Paid In This State; Accounts.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, an employer who transfers all or a segregable part of his or her operations from another...
• Section 421.22b Transferring Trade Or Business With Intent To Reduce Contribution Rate Or Reimbursement Payments.
  (1) A person shall not do either of the following: (a) Transfer the person's trade or business or a portion of the trade or...
• Section 421.23 Coverage Of Employer; Period.
  Except as otherwise provided in sections 24 and 25, any employing unit which becomes an employer subject to this act within any calendar year...
• Section 421.24 Cessation Of Employing Unit As Employer Subject To Act; Termination Of Coverage; Rescission Of Determination.
  Except as otherwise provided in section 25, an employing unit shall cease to be an employer subject to this act as provided in this...
• Section 421.25 Election That Services Be Deemed Employment Subject To Act; Request For Termination Of Coverage; Termination Of Election.
  (1) An employing unit for which services are performed that do not constitute employment as defined in this act may file with the commission...
• Section 421.26 Unemployment Compensation Fund.
  (a) There is established as a special fund, separate and apart from all public money or funds of this state, an unemployment compensation fund,...
• Section 421.26a Issuance Of Notes, Bonds, Financial Instruments, Or Other Evidences Of Indebtedness; Use Of Proceeds; Payment Of Unemployment Obligation Assessment; Rate; Collection; Additional Special Subaccounts; Agreements; Definitions.
  (1) The director of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs may request the Michigan finance authority to issue notes, bonds, financial instruments, or...
• Section 421.26b Repealed. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section provided for assistant treasurer, specified his powers, and authorized borrowing of federal funds.
• Section 421.27 Payment Of Benefits.
  (a)(1) When a determination, redetermination, or decision is made that benefits are due an unemployed individual, the benefits shall become payable from the fund...
• Section 421.27a Payment Of Benefits For Certain Periods Of Unemployment; Amount; Conditions; Eligibility; Limitation.
  When an individual has had a period of unemployment: (i) for which he has been paid benefits for 1 or more weeks or has...
• Section 421.27b Deducting And Withholding Income Tax From Unemployment Benefits.
  (1) Beginning January 1, 1997, an individual filing a claim for unemployment benefits that establishes a new benefit year shall, at the time of...
• Section 421.27c Noncharging Employer Account; Monetary Redetermination; Conditions.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, for benefit years beginning on or after October 1, 2000 and before January 1, 2014, if a...
• Section 421.27n Repealed. 1965, Act 281, Eff. Sept. 5, 1965.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section provided for offset of amounts collected under workmen's compensation act.
• Section 421.28 Eligibility To Receive Benefits; Conditions.
  (1) An unemployed individual is eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the unemployment agency finds all of the following:...
• Section 421.28a Preservation Of Unused Credit Weeks Or Benefit Entitlement During Period Of Continuous Involuntary Disability; Request; Written Statement From Physician; Copies; Extension Of Benefit Year; Payment Of Benefits; “continuous Disability” Defined; Inability To Establish Benefit Year; Cessation Of Entitlement To Benefits; Applicability; Dissemination Of Information To Interested Parties; Date Of Request.
  (1) For benefit years beginning before the conversion date prescribed in section 75, and notwithstanding any other provision of this act, an unemployed individual...
• Section 421.28b Definitions; Mcl 421.28c To 421.28m.
  As used in this section and sections 28c to 28m: (a) "Affected unit" means a department, shift, or other organizational unit of 2 or...
• Section 421.28c Shared-work Plan; Application; Requirements; Manner; Contents; Approval Of More Than 1 Plan.
  (1) An employer that meets all of the following requirements may apply to the unemployment agency for approval of a shared-work plan: (a) The...
• Section 421.28d Shared-work Plan; Approval By Unemployment Agency; Requirements; Reduction Percentage.
  (1) The unemployment agency shall approve a shared-work plan only if the plan meets all of the following requirements: (a) The shared-work plan applies...
• Section 421.28e Shared-work Plan; Approval Or Disapproval By Unemployment Agency.
  The unemployment agency shall approve or disapprove a shared-work plan no later than 15 days after the date the unemployment agency receives an employer's...
• Section 421.28f Shared-work Plan; Effective Period.
  (1) A shared-work plan is effective for the number of consecutive weeks indicated in the employer's application, or a lesser number of weeks as...
• Section 421.28g Compensation.
  (1) Compensation shall be payable to a participating employee for a week within the effective period of an approved shared-work plan during which the...
• Section 421.28h Schedule; Filing Compensation Claims; Benefits; Funding Of Benefits.
  (1) The unemployment agency shall establish a schedule of consecutive 2-week periods within the effective period of the shared-work plan. The unemployment agency may,...
• Section 421.28i Modification Of Shared-work Plan.
  An employer may apply to the unemployment agency for approval to modify a shared-work plan to meet changed conditions. The unemployment agency shall reevaluate...
• Section 421.28j Termination Of Shared-work Plan; Good Cause.
  (1) The unemployment agency may terminate a shared-work plan for good cause. (2) For purposes of subsection (1), good cause includes any of the...
• Section 421.28k Authority Of Unemployment Agency To Approve, Disapprove, Modify, Or Terminate Shared-work Plan.
  The decision to approve or disapprove a shared-work plan, to approve or disapprove a modification of a shared-work plan, or to terminate a shared-work...
• Section 421.28l Report.
  In addition to other reports required by law, the unemployment agency shall submit to the governor, the secretary of the senate, and the clerk...
• Section 421.28m Effect Of Approval Or Disapproval By Federal Government.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, if any provision of sections 28b to 28l would otherwise cause the United States department of...
• Section 421.29 Disqualification From Benefits.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (5), an individual is disqualified from receiving benefits if he or she: (a) Left work voluntarily without good...
• Section 421.29m, 421.29n Repealed. 1965, Act 281, Eff. Sept. 5, 1965.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections provided for disqualification for benefits by reason of a jail sentence and by reason of a disciplinary layoff or suspension.
• Section 421.30 Benefits Inalienable.
  Benefits inalienable. All rights to benefits shall be absolutely inalienable by any assignment, sale, garnishment, execution or otherwise, and, in case of bankruptcy, the...
• Section 421.31 Waiver Of Rights; Limitation Of Fees.
  No agreement by an individual to wave, release, or commute his rights to benefits or any other rights under this act from an employer...
• Section 421.32 Claims For Benefits; Examination; Determination; Notice.
  (a) Claims for benefits shall be made pursuant to regulations prescribed by the unemployment agency. The unemployment agency shall designate representatives who shall promptly...
• Section 421.32a Review Of Determination; Redetermination; Notice; Reconsideration; Applicability Of Disqualification Or Ineligibility To Compensable Period; Finality Of Redetermination; Additional Transfer Provisions.
  (1) Upon application by an interested party for review of a determination, upon request for transfer to an administrative law judge for a hearing...
• Section 421.32b Internet Site; Establishment; Access; Purpose; Protest Or Appeal.
  (1) The unemployment agency shall establish and provide access to a secure internet site to enable employers to determine if correspondence sent to the...
• Section 421.33 Assignment To Administrative Law Judge; Appeals And Transferred Matters; Consolidation Of Cases; Procedure For Appeal To Michigan Compensation Appellate Commission.
  (1) An appeal from a redetermination issued by the agency in accordance with section 32a or a matter transferred for hearing and decision in...
• Section 421.34 Appeal To Michigan Compensation Appellate Commission From Findings Of Fact And Decision Or From Denial Of Motion For Rehearing Or Reopening.
  (1) The Michigan compensation appellate commission created in Executive Reorganization Order No. 2011-6, MCL 445.2032, has full authority to handle, process, and decide appeals...
• Section 421.35, 421.36 Repealed. 2011, Act 269, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 2011.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections pertained to powers and duties of board of review and appeals to referees and board of review.
• Section 421.37 Fees For Subpoenaed Witnesses; Fees And Expenses Of Proceedings; Issuance Of Subpoena.
  (1) Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to this act shall be allowed fees at the rate fixed by law. The fees and expenses of proceedings involving...
• Section 421.38 Review By Circuit Court; Direct Appeal Of Order Or Decision Of Administrative Law Judge; Unemployment Agency As Party; Manner Of Appeal.
  (1) The circuit court in the county in which the claimant resides or the circuit court in the county in which the claimant's place...
• Section 421.39 Employment Security Act; Definitions.
  Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the terms defined in this act shall be construed to have the...
• Section 421.40 “employing Unit” Defined.
  “Employing unit” means any individual or type of organization, including, but not limited to, a governmental entity as defined in section 50a, a partnership,...
• Section 421.41 “employer” Defined.
  "Employer" means any of the following: (1) An employing unit that in each of 20 different calendar weeks within a calendar year, whether or...
• Section 421.41a Repealed. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section provided for limitation by commission of retroactive effect of its rulings or decisions.
• Section 421.42 “employment” Defined.
  (1) "Employment" means service, including service in interstate commerce, performed for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied....
• Section 421.42a Coverage Of Services; Determination; Penalties And Interests.
  If a business entity requests the unemployment agency to determine whether 1 or more individuals performing services for the entity in this state are...
• Section 421.43 Services Excluded From Term "Employment."
  Except as otherwise provided in section 42(6), the term "employment" does not include any of the following: (a) Services performed by an individual who...
• Section 421.44 “remuneration” And “wages” Defined.
  (1) "Remuneration" means all compensation paid for personal services, including commissions and bonuses, and except for agricultural and domestic services, the cash value of...
• Section 421.44a “previously Uncovered Services” Defined; Wages To Include Remuneration For Previously Uncovered Services; Limitation On Use Of Remuneration And On Charging Of Benefits; Claims To Which Section Applicable; Retroactive Claims; Remuneration For Previously Uncovered Services; Identification And Notification Of Individuals Entitled To Benefits; Charging Certain Amounts Of Benefits To State Only; Reimbursement Of Commission.
  (1) As used in this section, “previously uncovered services” means services which meet all of the following criteria: (a) Which were not performed in...
• Section 421.45 Base Periods; Definition.
  For benefit years beginning before the conversion date prescribed in section 75, “base period” means the period of 52 consecutive calendar weeks ending with...
• Section 421.46 “benefit Year” Defined; Conditions; Rights Of Claimant.
  (a) Subject to subsections (d) through (f), for benefit years beginning before October 1, 2000, "benefit year" means the period of 52 consecutive calendar...
• Section 421.46a Establishment Of Benefit Year Where Individual Unable To Establish Benefit Year Under Mcl 421.46; Conditions; Calculation Of Average Weekly Wage; Charge To Employers; Extended Benefits; Claim.
  (1) If an individual is not able to establish a benefit year under section 46 because of insufficient credit weeks, a benefit year may...
• Section 421.47 Calendar Quarter; Definition.
  “Calendar quarter” means a period of 3 consecutive calendar months, ending with the last day of March, June, September or December. History: 1936, Ex....
• Section 421.48 “unemployed” Explained; Amounts Considered Wages Or Remuneration; Leave Of Absence; Elected Layoff.
  (1) An individual shall be considered unemployed for any week during which he or she performs no services and for which remuneration is not...
• Section 421.48a Transmission Or Receipt By Mail.
  A reference in this act to transmission or receipt by mail shall include any form of electronic transmission or receipt approved by the agency....
• Section 421.49 Last Day Of Protest Or Appeal Period Falling On Saturday, Sunday, Or Legal Holiday; Running Of Statutory Periods.
  (1) When the last day of the 30-day protest or appeal period, as provided for in this act, falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or...
• Section 421.50 “week" Defined.
  "Week" means calendar week, ending at midnight Saturday, but all work performed and wages earned during a working shift which starts before midnight Saturday...
• Section 421.50a “governmental Entity” Defined.
  (1) As used in this act, “governmental entity” means this state or any of its instrumentalities, a county, city, township, village, school district, community...
• Section 421.51 “benefits” And “average Weekly Wage” Defined.
  “Benefits” means the money payments payable to an eligible and qualified individual, as provided in this act, with respect to unemployment. For benefit years...
• Section 421.51a Repealed. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section defined terms “benefits” and “average weekly wage”.
• Section 421.52 State; Definition.
  “State” includes, in addition to the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of...
• Section 421.53 “hospital,”“institution Of Higher Education,” And “educational Institution Other Than Institution Of Higher Education,” Defined.
  (1) “Hospital” means an institution which has been licensed, certified or approved by the department of public health, bureau of medical care administration, as...
• Section 421.54 Sanctions; Penalties.
  (a) A person, including a claimant for unemployment benefits, an employing entity, or an owner, director, or officer of an employing entity, who willfully...
• Section 421.54a Requiring Individual To Make False Statement Or Representation Regarding Benefit Or Other Payment As Condition Of Employment; Remedies; Applicability; Disposition Of Amounts Recovered; Effective Date Of Section.
  (1) Any employing unit or an officer or agent of an employing unit, an employee of the commission, or a third party shall not...
• Section 421.54b Conspiracy; Applicability; Penalties; Disposition Of Amounts Recovered; Effective Date Of Section.
  (1) An employing unit or an officer or agent of an employing unit, a claimant for unemployment benefits, an employee of the commission, or...
• Section 421.54c Embezzlement; Penalties; Applicability; Disposition Of Amounts Recovered; Effective Date Of Section.
  (1) An employing unit or an officer or agent of an employing unit, a claimant for unemployment benefits, an employee of the commission, or...
• Section 421.55 Catchline Headings Of Section Not Part Of Act.
  Catchline headings of sections not part of act. The catchline headings of the sections of this act shall in no way be considered to...
• Section 421.56 American Vessel, American Aircraft; Definitions.
  “American vessel” as used in this act means a vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States, or a vessel which...
• Section 421.57 Amendment Or Repeal Of Act.
  Amendment or repeal of act. All the rights, privileges or immunities conferred under or by virtue of the provisions of this act, or acts...
• Section 421.58 Suspension Of Provisions.
  Suspension of certain provisions. If at any time the governor shall find that the provisions of this act requiring the payment of contributions and...
• Section 421.59 Repeal.
  Repeal. All acts and parts of acts in so far as inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and whenever provisions...
• Section 421.60 Advance From Federal Fund; Repayment.
  Upon request of the commission acting under the authority of section 26 (g) of this act, the governor may apply under section 1201 of...
• Section 421.60a Protection Of Deaf.
  The commission shall exercise and perform all the powers and duties in relation to the protection of the deaf and deafened, as are presently...
• Section 421.61 Repealed. 1951, Act 251, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1951.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section provided for disqualification due to other benefits.
• Section 421.62 Recovery Of Improperly Paid Benefits.
  (a) If the unemployment agency determines that a person has obtained benefits to which that person is not entitled, or a subsequent determination by...
• Section 421.63 Repealed. 1971, Act 231, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to the effective date and applicability of 1970 amendments to the employment security act.
• Section 421.64 Payment Of Extended Benefits.
  (1)(a) Payment of extended benefits under this section shall be made at the individual's weekly extended benefit rate, for any week of unemployment that...
• Section 421.65 Effective Dates Of Act 231 Of 1971; Recomputation Of Benefits.
  (1) If this 1971 amendatory act is given immediate effect, the effective date of paragraph (1a) of subsection (b) of section 27 and paragraph...
• Section 421.66 Effective Dates Of Act 104 Of 1974; Recomputation Of Benefits.
  (1) If this 1974 amendatory act is given immediate effect, the effective date of this amendatory act shall be the first day of the...
• Section 421.67 Effective Dates Of Act 110 Of 1975; Recomputation Of Weekly Benefit Rate And Maximum Amount Of Benefits; Supplemental Benefits.
  (1) If this 1975 amendatory act is given immediate effect, the effective date of this amendatory act shall be the first day of the...
• Section 421.67a Repealed. 1996, Act 535, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1997.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to reports to governor and legislature.
• Section 421.67b Annual Report To Legislature; Validating Representations Made By Employer To Legislature.
  (1) The commission shall annually report to the legislature on the number of claimants who qualify for benefits under section 46a; the average weekly...
• Section 421.68, 421.69 Repealed. 1982, Act 535, Eff. Jan. 2, 1983.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections pertained to eligibility and disqualification for benefits.
• Section 421.70 Effective Date Of Act 358 Of 1980; Recomputation Of Weekly Benefit Rate And Maximum Amount Of Benefits; Supplemental Benefits.
  (1) Except as provided in section 35(4), the effective date of the 1980 amendatory act which added this section 70 shall be March 1,...
• Section 421.71 Effective Dates Of Act 535 Of 1982.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the 1982 amendatory act which added this section shall take effect January 2, 1983. (2) The...
• Section 421.72 Effective Date Of Act 164 Of 1983.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section and the 1983 amendatory act which added this section, the 1983 amendatory act which added this...
• Section 421.73 Rounding Benefits To Next Lower Full Dollar.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, any amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual for any week if not...
• Section 421.75 Conversion Date To Wage Record System; Effective Date; Report.
  The conversion date to a wage record system prescribed by 1994 PA 162 is October 1, 2000. The unemployment agency shall provide the standing...

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