SENATE DOCKET, NO. 985        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 706

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act promoting fairness for workers requalifying for unemployment insurance..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Paragraph (e) of section 25 of chapter 151A, as appearing in the 2006 official edition, is hereby amended by striking the first clause in lines 109 to 112 appearing before (1), and replacing it with the following:-

“For the period of unemployment next ensuing and until the individual has had at least eight weeks of work and earned an amount equivalent to or in excess of eight times the individual’s weekly benefit amount after the individual has left work.”