Amendment ID: S2480-37-R3

3rd Redraft Amendment 37

Displaced workers

Mr. Tarr moves that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section _ the following new sections:-

SECTION X.  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development shall promulgate regulations to require that claimants receiving federal pandemic unemployment compensation comply with all relevant federal regulations pertaining to such benefit, conduct a work search as required by the department of unemployment assistance, and certify in writing in a form prescribed by the department of unemployment assistance that the claimant is unemployed due to a specific cause related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Section XX. In carrying out the provisions of Section X, the Secretary of Labor and Workforce development shall seek and obtain any necessary waivers or special authorizations from the federal department of labor.