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(A) No claim for benefits for a week of unemployment shall be valid unless the individual is registered as designated by the director. The director shall prescribe the manner and frequency of registration.
(1) An individual is deemed to be registered upon filing an application for benefit rights, making a weekly claim for benefits or reopening an existing claim following a period of employment or non-reporting.
(2) Registration continues for a period of three calendar weeks beginning with the week of registration.
(3) The director may, for good cause, extend the specified period of registration.
Effective: 08/14/2008
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 02/22/2009
Promulgated Under: 4141.14
Statutory Authority: 4141.13
Rule Amplifies: 4141.29
Prior Effective Dates: 7/3/86, 12/30/91, 6/3/96, 1/15/01, 2/22/04
(A) For purposes of division (D) of section 4141.33 of the Revised Code:
(1) “Participating in sports or athletic events” refers only to the services performed by athletes as contestants in sports or athletic events and not to the services performed by managers, coaches, trainers, referees, umpires, scorers, groundskeepers or other individuals who are not contestants.
(2) An individual shall be deemed to perform “substantially all” of his or her services participating in sports or athletic events if such participation accounts for seventy-five per cent or more of total services performed during the base period.
(3) A “sports season” shall be deemed to begin on the date that scheduled training begins and to end on the date on which all related sports activity ceases.
(B) The period between two successive sports seasons or similar periods shall begin with the Sunday immediately following the date on which the sports season ends and shall continue through the Saturday following the date on which the next sports season begins.
(C) A claim for benefits shall be disallowed when the individual has reasonable assurance of employment with either the same employer or a different athletic employer for the next sports season.
(D) When an athlete performs services in nonathletic employment in addition to athletic employment, and the athlete has reasonable assurance of employment for the next sports season, claims for benefits shall be disallowed between sports seasons even if the nonathletic employment was sufficient to establish a valid application for determination of benefit rights.
HISTORY: Eff 7-3-86; 2-22-04
Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03, 4141.14
Rule authorized by: RC 4141.13
Rule amplifies: RC 4141.33
RC 119.032 review dates: 10/15/02, 10/15/07, 11/25/03, 2/22/09
(A) In order for an individual to be eligible to be credited with a waiting week or receive unemployment compensation benefits for a week, he or she must, unless otherwise provided pursuant to division (A)(4) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code, provide documentation of the efforts on his or her part to search for work in his or her trade or occupation during each week. The individual shall produce such documentation for examination upon request and in a manner prescribed by the director.
(B) An individual who is a member in good standing with a labor union which refers individuals to jobs, may meet the active work search requirements of division (A)(4) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code by providing documentation that he or she is eligible for referral or placement for each week, and producing documentation of such contact for examination upon request and in a manner prescribed by the director.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 09/28/2005 and 09/28/2010
Promulgated Under: 4141.14
Statutory Authority: 4141.13(A)
Rule Amplifies: 4141.29(A)(4)
Prior Effective Dates: 5/1/93, 1/15/01