AB68-SSA1,862,64 108.04 (2) (a) (intro.) Except as provided in pars. par. (b) to (bd), sub. (16) (am)
5and (b), and s. 108.062 (10) and (10m) and as otherwise expressly provided, a
6claimant is eligible for benefits as to any given week only if all of the following apply:

AB68-SSA1,862,208 108.04 (2) (a) 3. The claimant conducts a reasonable search for suitable work
9during that week and provides verification of that search to the department. The
10search for suitable work must include at least 4 actions per week that constitute a
11reasonable search as prescribed by rule of the department. In addition, the
12department may, by rule, require a claimant to take more than 4 reasonable work
13search actions in any week. The department shall require a uniform number of
14reasonable work search actions for similar types of claimants. This subdivision does
15not apply to a claimant if the department determines that the claimant is currently
16laid off from employment with an employer but there is a reasonable expectation of
17reemployment of the individual by that employer. In determining whether the
18claimant has a reasonable expectation of reemployment by an employer, the
19department shall request the employer to verify the claimant's employment status
20and shall consider all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,862,2121 a. The history of layoffs and reemployments by the employer.

AB68-SSA1,862,2322 b. Any information that the employer furnished to the claimant or the
23department concerning the claimant's anticipated reemployment date.

AB68-SSA1,862,2524 c. Whether the claimant has recall rights with the employer under the terms
25of any applicable collective bargaining agreement.

AB68-SSA1,863,42 108.04 (2) (b) The department may, by rule, establish waivers from the
3registration for work requirement under par. (a) 2. and the work search requirement
4under par. (a) 3.

AB68-SSA1,863,148 108.04 (2) (bm) A claimant is ineligible to receive benefits for any week for
9which there is a determination that the claimant failed to comply with the
10registration for work and work search requirements under par. (a) 2. or 3. or failed
11to provide verification to the department that the claimant complied with those
12requirements, unless the department has waived those requirements under par. (b),
13(bb), or (bd) or s. 108.062 (10m). If the department has paid benefits to a claimant
14for any such week, the department may recover the overpayment under s. 108.22.

AB68-SSA1,863,2216 108.04 (2) (h) A claimant shall, when the claimant first files a claim for benefits
17under this chapter and during each subsequent week the claimant files for benefits
18under this chapter, inform the department whether he or she is receiving social
19security disability insurance payments, as defined in sub. (12) (f) 2m s. 108.05 (7m)
20(b). If the claimant is receiving social security disability insurance payments, the
21claimant shall, in the manner prescribed by the department, report to the
22department the amount of the social security disability insurance payments.

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1108.04 (5m) Discharge for use of marijuana. (a) Notwithstanding sub. (5),
2“misconduct," for purposes of sub. (5), does not include the employee's use of
3marijuana off the employer's premises during nonworking hours or a violation of the
4employer's policy concerning such use, unless termination of the employee because
5of that use is permitted under s. 111.35.

AB68-SSA1,864,96 (b) Notwithstanding sub. (5g), “substantial fault," for purposes of sub. (5g), does
7not include the employee's use of marijuana off the employer's premises during
8nonworking hours or a violation of the employer's policy concerning such use, unless
9termination of the employee because of that use is permitted under s. 111.35.

AB68-SSA1,864,1911 108.04 (7) (e) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the department determines that
12the employee accepted work that the employee could have failed to accept under sub.
13(8) and terminated the work on the same grounds and within the first 30 calendar
14days 10 weeks after starting the work, or that the employee accepted work that the
15employee could have refused under sub. (9) and terminated the work within the first
1630 calendar days 10 weeks after starting the work. For purposes of this paragraph,
17an employee has the same grounds for voluntarily terminating work if the employee
18could have failed to accept the work under sub. (8) (d) to (em) when it was offered,
19regardless of the reason articulated by the employee for the termination.

AB68-SSA1,864,2422 108.04 (7) (t) 2. The employee's spouse was required by the U.S. armed forces
23his or her employing unit to relocate to a place to which it is impractical for the
24employee to commute.

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1108.04 (8) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), if If an employee fails, without good
2cause, to accept suitable work when offered, the employee is ineligible to receive
3benefits until the employee earns wages after the week in which the failure occurs
4equal to at least 6 times the employee's weekly benefit rate under s. 108.05 (1) in
5employment or other work covered by the unemployment insurance law of any state
6or the federal government. For purposes of requalification, the employee's weekly
7benefit rate shall be that rate which would have been paid had the failure not
8occurred. This paragraph does not preclude an employee from establishing a benefit
9year during a period in which the employee is ineligible to receive benefits under this
10paragraph if the employee qualifies to establish a benefit year under s. 108.06 (2) (a).
11Except as provided in par. (b), the The department shall charge to the fund's
12balancing account any benefits otherwise chargeable to the account of an employer
13that is subject to the contribution requirements under ss. 108.17 and 108.18
14whenever an employee of that employer fails, without good cause, to accept suitable
15work offered by that employer.