Alaska § 23.20.505 - Unemployed defined.
Full text of Alaska Alaska Statutes § 23.20.505 — Unemployed defined., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 23.20.505. Unemployed defined.
(a) An individual is considered “unemployed” in a week during which the individual performs no services and for which no wages are payable to the individual, or in a week of less than full-time work if the wages payable to the individual for the week are less than one and one-third times the individual's weekly benefit amount, excluding the allowance for dependents, plus $50.
(b) [Repealed, § 33 ch 115 SLA 1982.] (c) [Repealed, § 33 ch 115 SLA 1982.] (d) An individual is not considered “unemployed” in a week if (1) the individual is not performing services during that week because the individual is on leave from the regular employer of the individual for a period of four weeks or less; and
(2) the leave is part of a work schedule consisting of alternating periods of work and leave in which the hours of work for one complete period of work and leave average at least 40 hours per week.
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Section 23.20.505 ("Unemployed defined.") is part of the Alaska Statutes, the codified statutory law of Alaska. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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