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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1596

  • Wages: means all remuneration for services, including vacation pay, holiday pay, dismissal pay, commissions, bonuses, the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash, and WARN Act payments received pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
  • Week: means such period of seven consecutive days, as the administrator may by regulation prescribe. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law to the contrary, any amount of unemployment compensation payable to any individual for any week, if not an even dollar amount, shall be computed to the next lowest multiple of one dollar.  Provided, however, that when wage record files are posted, all wages shall be rounded to the nearest dollar.

Acts 1988, No. 192, §1, eff. July 3, 1988.