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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1723

  • Administrator: means the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Contributions: means the money payments to the state unemployment compensation fund, required by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
  • Employer: means :

                (a) Any employing unit which in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year paid for services in employment wages of one thousand five hundred dollars or more for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks were consecutive, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, had in employment at least one individual regardless of whether the same individual was in employment each day. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

The employer, within the thirty-day period provided by La. Rev. Stat. 23:1722, may appeal the determination of the administrator by sending an appeal to the administrator by certified or registered mail.  The appeal shall fully disclose the reasons, together with facts and figures in substantiation thereof, for objecting to the administrator’s determination.  The administrator shall consider the appeal, and, if timely requested by the employer, shall grant a fair hearing of which a record shall be made before making a final determination on liability and assessment of contributions, interest and penalties due.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 336, §1; Acts 2014, No. 529, §1.