California Unemployment Insurance Code CHAPTER 6 - Voluntary Plans

• Section 3251.
  An employer, a majority of the employees employed in this state of an employer, or both, may apply to the Director of Employment Development for...
• Section 3252.
  (a) Except as provided by subdivision (b) of this section, neither an employee nor his or her employer shall be liable for the worker contributions required...
• Section 3253.
  Except as provided in this part, an employee covered by an approved voluntary plan at the commencement of a disability benefit period shall not be...
• Section 3254.
  The Director of Employment Development shall approve any voluntary plan, except one filed pursuant to Section 3255, as to which he or she finds that...
• Section 3254.1.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “small-business-third-party administrator” (hereafter SBTPA), means an applicant that the director finds meets all of the following criteria at the...
• Section 3254.5.
  A voluntary plan in force and effect at the time a successor employing unit acquires the organization, trade, or business, or substantially all the assets...
• Section 3255.
  When workers are engaged in an employment that normally involves working for several employers in the same industry interchangeably, and several employers or some of...
• Section 3256.
  During the effective period of a plan approved under Section 3255 the employer, or his agent appointed under Section 1096, may make the pay roll...
• Section 3257.
  Whenever eighty-five percent (85%) of the employees to whom a plan is available have consented to the plan, the employer, or seventy-five percent (75%) of...
• Section 3258.
  If a voluntary plan does not provide for the assumption by an admitted disability insurer of the liability of the employer to pay the benefits...
• Section 3259.
  Whenever an approved voluntary plan is insured by an admitted disability insurer, the insurer shall be substituted for the employer with respect to any assessments...
• Section 3260.
  An employer may, but need not, assume all or part of the cost of the plan, and may deduct from the wages of an employee...
• Section 3260.5.
  (a) All deductions from the wages of an employee remaining in the possession of the employer upon its voluntary withdrawal of the plan as a result...
• Section 3261.
  All employee contributions and income arising therefrom received or retained by an employer under an approved voluntary plan are trust funds that are not considered...
• Section 3262.
  (a) The Director of Employment Development may terminate any voluntary plan if the director finds that there is danger that the benefits accrued or to accrue...
• Section 3263.
  (a) An employee is no longer covered by an approved voluntary plan if a disability arose after the employment relationship with the voluntary plan employer...
• Section 3264.
  If any employer or insurer wholly or partially denies liability upon the claim of an employee for disability benefits under an approved plan, the employee...
• Section 3265.
  (a) If, on appeal, it is decided that an employee is entitled to receive disability benefits under an approved voluntary plan and the employer or insurer...
• Section 3266.
  The director shall in accordance with his or her authorized regulations determine the portion of the aggregate amount of refunds and credits to employees made...
• Section 3267.
  Employers whose employees are participating in an approved voluntary plan and any insurer of an approved plan shall furnish such reports and information and make...
• Section 3268.
  The Director of Employment Development shall, in accordance with his authorized regulations, promptly furnish to employers, employees, or insurers, such information as may be required...
• Section 3269.
  The director shall in accordance with his or her authorized regulations, determine each fiscal year the total amount expended for added administrative work arising out...
• Section 3270.
  The provisions of subdivision (i) of Section 3254 and subdivision (i) of Section 3255, dealing with substantial selection of risks adverse to the Disability Fund,...
• Section 3271.
  (a) The director shall approve any amendment to a voluntary plan adjusting the provisions thereof as to periods after the effective date of the amendment as...
• Section 3272.
  The provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 1176) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of this division shall apply to amounts collected under Sections...

Last modified: October 22, 2018