§ 40-1-217. Unemployed.  


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  • UNEMPLOYED.  An individual shall be deemed "unemployed" with respect to any week during which he performed no services and with respect to which no wages are payable to him, or with respect to any week of less than full-time work if the wages payable to him with respect to such week are less than his weekly benefit amount plus One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); provided that for the purpose of this section only, any vacation leave payments or sick leave payments, which such individual may receive or be entitled to from his employer or former employer, arising by reason of separation from employment, shall be deemed not to be wages as the term wages is used in this section.

Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 1-217, eff. July 1, 1980.  Amended by Laws 1994, c. 41, § 1, eff. July 1, 1994.