MICHIGAN EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ACT
- Section 421.1 - Michigan employment security act; short title
- Section 421.2 - Declaration of public policy; findings
- Section 421.3 - Bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation; policies; definitions
- Section 421.3a - Michigan employment security advisory council; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancies; compensation; expenses; recommendations; assistance and studies
- Section 421.35, 421.36 - [Repealed]
- Section 421.3b - [Repealed]
- Section 421.4 - Rules and regulations; distribution; public hearing; notice; publication; copies furnished; effective date
- Section 421.4a - Parking facility; approval of state administrative board
- Section 421.5 - Employment security commission; director; appointment, term, and duties; annual salary; employees and assistants; delegation of authority; compensation and expenses; bond; appointment and qualifications of persons to assist employers and represent claimants
- Section 421.5a - Advocacy assistance services; program
- Section 421.5b - Bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation; creation within department of consumer and industry services; director; transfer of powers and duties by executive order
- Section 421.6 - Conversion to wage record system; assistance of ad hoc committees; administrative costs
- Section 421.6a - Unemployment insurance agency; destruction or disposal of documents; admissibility of reproduction as evidence
- Section 421.6b - Appropriation for continuing work on unemployment insurance computer system improvement and capacity extension project; staff training; appointment, membership, and duties of computer project oversight committee; reversion of unexpended funds; work project
- Section 421.6c - Emergency backup plan for computer system
- Section 421.6d - Stabilization fund
- Section 421.6e - Employee training program; operation; funding; purpose
- Section 421.6f - Appropriation to fund improvements; expenditure; work project
- Section 421.6g - Securing automated systems for fraud control and collections division; fraud control and investigation; funding; work project
- Section 421.7 - Employment security commission; consolidation of divisions
- Section 421.8 - Legislative purpose; annual review of maximum weekly benefit rates; comparison of consumers' price index; "base month" defined; determining percentage of increase or decrease; report
- Section 421.9 - Employment security commission; subpoenas, issuance; enforcement; immunity
- Section 421.10 - Administration fund; contingent fund
- Section 421.10a - Obligation trust fund; creation; receipt and deposit of money or other assets; investment; money remaining in fund; administrator; expenditures; purpose
- Section 421.11 - Unemployment agency; cooperation with federal agency; reports; compliance with federal regulations; "social security act" defined; disclosure of information; reciprocal agreements
- Section 421.11a - Privilege; waiver
- Section 421.12 - Acceptance of Wagner-Peyser act
- Section 421.12a - Employment security; community work or training program; employee benefits
- Section 421.13 - Contributions of employer; rate; obligation assessment payment; computation and payment; reports; quarterly wage report; apportioned payments; optional payment method; "eligible contributing employer" defined
- Section 421.13a - Contributions of nonprofit organizations; reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions; "nonprofit organization" defined; notice of election to become reimbursing employer; surety bond, irrevocable letter of credit, or other security; applicability of subsection (4)
- Section 421.13b - Liability of nonprofit organization for reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions; termination of status as reimbursing employer; notice of termination; election to become reimbursing employer; notice of election; termination of election; extension of time; determination of status as employer
- Section 421.13c - Payments by nonprofit organization to commission; computation; statement of charges; past due reimbursement payments
- Section 421.13d - Delinquency of nonprofit organization in making reimbursement payments; termination of election; surety bond, irrevocable letter of credit, or other security
- Section 421.13e - Group account for sharing cost of benefits; joint application; approval; notice; duration; termination; adding employer to or removing employer from group account; liability for benefit charges; effective date and application of amendatory provision
- Section 421.13f - Reimbursement by nonprofit organization of benefits paid; charging benefits paid to rating account of nonprofit organization
- Section 421.13g - Reimbursement payments by state in lieu of contributions; amount, time, and manner of payments; separate accounts; funds to which reimbursement payments charged; liability for reimbursement payments; election to be reimbursing employer; reimbursement of benefits; charging benefits to experience account; past due reimbursement payments
- Section 421.13h - Provisions applicable to reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions and reimbursing employers
- Section 421.13i - Governmental entity as reimbursing employer or contributing employer; election; notice; termination of election; liability for reimbursement payments; notice terminating status; extension of period for filing notice of election; determination of status as employer, effective date of election, and termination of prior election
- Section 421.13j - [Repealed]
- Section 421.13k - Payment by governmental entity of regular benefits plus extended benefits and training benefits; ascertainment of amount; statement of charges; reimbursement of fund; past due reimbursement payments; liability for and payment of contributions; delinquency; termination of election; reimbursement of benefits; charging benefits to experience account
- Section 421.13l - Indian tribe or tribal unit as employer; requirements
- Section 421.13m - Professional employer organization; determination of status as liable employer; reporting of wages and payment of unemployment contributions; requirements; act or omission occurring before January 1, 2011; "professional employer organization" defined
- Section 421.14 - Employing unit as employer and services as employment; determinations; notice; review and redetermination; collection of contributions; retroactive determination; introduction of determination, redetermination, or decision in proceeding involving claim for benefits
- Section 421.15 - Delinquent contributions
- Section 421.15a - Apportioned quarterly payments; interest on contribution obligation not required; failure to make payment
- Section 421.15b - [Repealed]
- Section 421.16 - Adjustment or refund of contributions or interest
- Section 421.17 - Nonchargeable benefits account; experience account; pooling of contributions; credits; exception during COVID-19 pandemic only
- Section 421.18 - Definitions
- Section 421.19 - Contribution rate of contributing employer; determination; reserve fund balance of reorganized employer; distressed employer; irrevocability of excess payments to experience account
- Section 421.19a - Solvency tax; determination; payment; deferral; appropriation; repayment; payment of amounts obtained into contingent fund; crediting amounts to employers' experience accounts; past due payments; interest and penalties; adjustments and refunds; appeals; qualification for federal interest relief provisions and federal unemployment tax credits; forgiveness or postponement of interest
- Section 421.20 - Charging benefits against employer's account; benefits improperly paid; basis; failure of employer to provide information; determination; appeal; separate determination of amount and duration of benefits; charge to base period employer; "separating employer" defined; limitation on charges for regular benefits; training benefits and extended benefits; notice of charges; listing; spouse as full-time member of United States Armed Forces; definitions
- Section 421.20a - Benefits paid under protest or appeal; charge to suspense account; transfer to rating account or solvency account
- Section 421.21 - Copies or listings of benefit checks charged against employer's account; copies as final determination; statement of total benefits charged against rating account; notice to employer of contribution rate; finality of statement or determination; extension; review and redetermination; appeal; hearing; adjustment of contribution
- Section 421.21a - Allocation of benefit charges and contributions attributable to service performed under CETA-PSE
- Section 421.21b - Seamen on American vessel on Great Lakes; benefits; seamen, definition
- Section 421.22 - Transfer of business
- Section 421.22a - Transfer of operations from another state to this state; conditions to being deemed qualified employer; withdrawing request for application of section; furnishing information to commission; wages, contributions, and benefits deemed paid in this state; accounts
- Section 421.22b - Transferring trade or business with intent to reduce contribution rate or reimbursement payments
- Section 421.23 - Coverage of employer; period
- Section 421.24 - Cessation of employing unit as employer subject to act; termination of coverage; rescission of determination
- Section 421.25 - Election that services be deemed employment subject to act; request for termination of coverage; termination of election
- Section 421.26 - Unemployment compensation fund
- Section 421.26a - Issuance of notes, bonds, financial instruments, or other evidences of indebtedness; use of proceeds; payment of unemployment obligation assessment; rate; collection; additional special subaccounts; agreements; definitions
- Section 421.26b - [Repealed]
- Section 421.27 - Payment of benefits; extension of benefits subject to appropriation
- Section 421.27a - Payment of benefits for certain periods of unemployment; amount; conditions; eligibility; limitation
- Section 421.27b - Deducting and withholding income tax from unemployment benefits
- Section 421.27c - Noncharging employer account; monetary redetermination; conditions
- Section 421.27n - [Repealed]
- Section 421.28 - Eligibility to receive benefits; conditions; waiver extension for extended layoff in 2021
- Section 421.28a - Preservation of unused credit weeks or benefit entitlement during period of continuous involuntary disability; request; written statement from physician; copies; extension of benefit year; payment of benefits; "continuous disability" defined; inability to establish benefit year; cessation of entitlement to benefits; applicability; dissemination of information to interested parties; date of request
- Section 421.28b - Definitions; MCL 421.28c to 421.28m
- Section 421.28c - Shared-work plan; application; requirements; manner; contents; approval of more than 1 plan
- Section 421.28d - Shared-work plan; approval by unemployment agency; requirements; reduction percentage
- Section 421.28e - Shared-work plan; approval or disapproval by unemployment agency
- Section 421.28f - Shared-work plan; effective period
- Section 421.28g - Compensation
- Section 421.28h - Schedule; filing compensation claims; benefits; funding of benefits
- Section 421.28i - Modification of shared-work plan
- Section 421.28j - Termination of shared-work plan; good cause
- Section 421.28k - Authority of unemployment agency to approve, disapprove, modify, or terminate shared-work plan
- Section 421.28l - Report
- Section 421.28m - Effect of approval or disapproval by federal government
- Section 421.29 - Disqualification from benefits; exception during COVID-19 pandemic
- Section 421.29a - Disqualification from benefits; exception for domestic violence; documentation; definitions
- Section 421.29m, 421.29n - [Repealed]
- Section 421.30 - Benefits inalienable
- Section 421.31 - Waiver of rights; limitation of fees
- Section 421.32 - Claims for benefits; examination; determination; notice
- Section 421.32a - Review of determination; redetermination; notice; reconsideration; applicability of redetermination, disqualification, or ineligibility to compensable period; finality of redetermination; additional transfer provisions; finding of fraud; change in mailing address
- Section 421.32b - Internet site; establishment; access; purpose; protest or appeal
- Section 421.32c - Reconsideration of claims filed after March 15, 2020; prohibited solely on applicability of executive order
- Section 421.32d - Unemployment agency; hiring new employees; limitation
- Section 421.33 - Assignment to administrative law judge; appeals and transferred matters; consolidation of cases; procedure for appeal to Michigan compensation appellate commission
- Section 421.34 - Appeal to Michigan compensation appellate commission from findings of fact and decision or from denial of motion for rehearing or reopening
- Section 421.37 - Fees for subpoenaed witnesses; fees and expenses of proceedings; issuance of subpoena
- Section 421.38 - Review by circuit court; direct appeal of order or decision of administrative law judge; unemployment agency as party; manner of appeal
- Section 421.39 - Employment security act; definitions
- Section 421.40 - "Employing unit" defined
- Section 421.41 - "Employer" defined
- Section 421.41a - [Repealed]
- Section 421.42 - "Employment" defined
- Section 421.42a - Coverage of services; determination; penalties and interests
- Section 421.43 - Services excluded from term "employment."
- Section 421.44 - "Remuneration" and "wages" defined
- Section 421.44a - "Previously uncovered services" defined; wages to include remuneration for previously uncovered services; limitation on use of remuneration and on charging of benefits; claims to which section applicable; retroactive claims; remuneration for previously uncovered services; identification and notification of individuals entitled to benefits; charging certain amounts of benefits to state only; reimbursement of commission
- Section 421.45 - Base periods; definition
- Section 421.46 - "Benefit year" defined; conditions; rights of claimant
- Section 421.46a - Establishment of benefit year where individual unable to establish benefit year under MCL 421.46; conditions; calculation of average weekly wage; charge to employers; extended benefits; claim
- Section 421.47 - Calendar quarter; definition
- Section 421.48 - "Unemployed" explained; amounts considered wages or remuneration; leave of absence; elected layoff; COVID-19 absence
- Section 421.48a - Transmission or receipt by mail
- Section 421.49 - Last day of protest or appeal period falling on Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday; running of statutory periods
- Section 421.50 - "Week" defined
- Section 421.50a - "Governmental entity" defined
- Section 421.51 - "Benefits" and "average weekly wage" defined
- Section 421.51a - [Repealed]
- Section 421.52 - State; definition
- Section 421.53 - "Hospital,""institution of higher education," and "educational institution other than institution of higher education," defined
- Section 421.54 - Sanctions; penalties
- Section 421.54a - Requiring individual to make false statement or representation regarding benefit or other payment as condition of employment; remedies; applicability; disposition of amounts recovered; effective date of section
- Section 421.54b - Conspiracy; applicability; penalties; disposition of amounts recovered; effective date of section
- Section 421.54c - Embezzlement; penalties; applicability; disposition of amounts recovered; effective date of section
- Section 421.54f - Report of fraudulent claim; contents; submission of affidavit by affected individual; duties of unemployment agency; appeal of determination; determination of identity theft; credit to employer's account; misrepresentation; affected individual as interested party; definitions
- Section 421.54g - Report regarding claims submitted by impostors; contents; definitions
- Section 421.54h - Appointment of individual to perform certain activities; "impostor" defined
- Section 421.55 - Catchline headings of section not part of act
- Section 421.56 - American vessel, American aircraft; definitions
- Section 421.57 - Amendment or repeal of act
- Section 421.58 - Suspension of provisions
- Section 421.59 - Repeal
- Section 421.60 - Advance from federal fund; repayment
- Section 421.60a - Protection of deaf
- Section 421.61 - [Repealed]
- Section 421.62 - Recovery of improperly paid benefits
- Section 421.63 - [Repealed]
- Section 421.64 - Payment of extended benefits
- Section 421.65 - Effective dates of Act 231 of 1971; recomputation of benefits
- Section 421.66 - Effective dates of Act 104 of 1974; recomputation of benefits
- Section 421.67 - Effective dates of Act 110 of 1975; recomputation of weekly benefit rate and maximum amount of benefits; supplemental benefits
- Section 421.67a - [Repealed]
- Section 421.67b - Annual report to legislature; validating representations made by employer to legislature
- Section 421.68, 421.69 - [Repealed]
- Section 421.70 - Effective date of Act 358 of 1980; recomputation of weekly benefit rate and maximum amount of benefits; supplemental benefits
- Section 421.71 - Effective dates of Act 535 of 1982
- Section 421.72 - Effective date of Act 164 of 1983
- Section 421.73 - Rounding benefits to next lower full dollar
- Section 421.75 - Conversion date to wage record system; effective date; report