Utah Code 35A-4-207. Unemployment
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Terms Used In Utah Code 35A-4-207
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual as provided in this chapter with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Utah Code 35A-4-201
- Department: means the Department of Workforce Services created in Section 35A-1-103. See Utah Code 35A-1-102
- wages: means wages as currently defined by Section 3306(b), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, with modifications, subtractions, and adjustments provided in Subsections (2), (3), and (4). See Utah Code 35A-4-208
- Week: means the period or periods of seven consecutive calendar days as the department may prescribe by rule. See Utah Code 35A-4-201
(1)(a) An individual is “unemployed” in any week during which he performs no services and with respect to which no wages are payable to him, or in any week of less than full-time work if the wages payable to him with respect to the week are less than his weekly benefit amount.
(1)(b) The department shall prescribe rules applicable to unemployed individuals making distinctions in the procedure as to total unemployment, part-total unemployment, partial unemployment of individuals attached to their regular jobs, and other forms of short-time work, as the department considers necessary.
(2) The department may by rule prescribe in the case of individuals working on a regular attachment basis the existence of unemployment for periods longer than a week if:
(2)(a) it is a period of less than full-time work;
(2)(b) insofar as possible the loss of wages required as a condition of being considered unemployed in those periods shall be such as to allow comparable benefits, for comparable loss in wages, to those individuals working less than full-time in each week as would be payable on a weekly claim period basis to those individuals working full-time and not at all in alternate weeks.
(3) Unemployment shall in no case be measured on a basis of longer than a four-week period.