Form Rt-800001 - Employer Guide To Reemployment Assistance Benefits (Page 2 of 6) in pdf

4. The weekly benefit amount is 1/26th of the high quarter

or disregard of the reasonable standards of behavior

wages (the minimum is $32 and the maximum is $275).

which the employer expects of the employee.

• Carelessness or negligence of such a degree or

5. The benefits available on a claim are equal to 25

recurrence as to manifest guilt, or wrongful intent, or

percent of the total base period wages. However, the

to show an intentional and substantial disregard of

maximum benefits payable on a claim are capped

the employer’s interests or of the employee’s duties

based on the average unemployment rate in Florida

and obligations to the employer.

during the third calendar quarter of the year prior to the

effective date of the claim. Claims filed during a year

• Chronic absenteeism or tardiness in deliberate

may have maximum benefits ranging from 12 weeks,

violation of a known policy of the employer or one

when the unemployment rate is 5 percent or less, to 23

or more unapproved absences following a written

weeks when the unemployment rate is 10.5 percent or

reprimand or warning relating to more than one

higher. For each half percent increase in the average

unapproved absence.

unemployment rate above 5 percent, one week is added

• A willful and deliberate violation of a standard or

to the maximum benefits. The maximum benefits

regulation of this state by an employee of an employer

payable on a claim will therefore, range from $3,300 to

licensed or certified by this state, which would cause

$6,325.

the employer to be sanctioned or have its license or

certification suspended.

Qualifying for Benefits

• A violation of an employer’s rule, unless the claimant

To be eligible for benefits, the worker must:

can demonstrate that no knowledge of rule was

provided by the employer; the rule is not lawful or

1. Be totally or partially unemployed.

related to the job environment and performance; or

2. File an initial claim for benefits online and report as

the rule is not fairly or consistently enforced.

directed to file for subsequent weeks.

3. Suspended or discharged for misconduct connected

3. Have the necessary wage credits for work in covered

with work consisting of drug use as evidenced by a

employment during the base period.

positive, confirmed drug test.

4. Failed without good cause either to apply for available

4. Have worked and earned three times the current weekly

suitable work or to accept suitable work or to return to

benefit amount since the filing date of the prior claim,

customary self-employment when so directed by DEO.

provided the individual received benefits on the prior

claim.

5. Unemployed due to a labor dispute (which may involve

a strike or lockout) in active progress which exists at the

5. Be able to work and available for work and actively

place of employment; and the individual is participating

seeking work, and be registered for work in Employ

in or financing or directly interested in such labor

Florida Marketplace.

dispute. In some cases, unemployment due to a lockout

6. Participate in reemployment services, such as job

may not be disqualifying.

search assistance services, as directed by the Regional

6. Furnished false information or made a fraudulent

Workforce Board.

representation for the purpose of obtaining benefits

7. Serve a waiting week, for which no benefits are payable,

such as not reporting earnings or job refusals. Willful

after filing an initial claim.

misrepresentation is also cause for fine and

imprisonment.

Disqualification

7. Receiving a retirement income from a base period

employer.

A claimant may be disqualified because of the reason

for separation from work. The facts pertaining to the

8. Receiving Worker’s Compensation for temporary or

circumstances causing the separation must be clearly

permanent total disability.

established. The following may disqualify an individual

9. Receiving or seeking unemployment benefits under

from receiving benefits:

an unemployment compensation law of another state

1. Voluntarily quit without good cause attributable to the

or the United States, unless the appropriate agency of

employing unit.

such state or of the United States finally determines

that the individual is not entitled to such unemployment

2. Suspended or discharged for misconduct connected

benefits.

with work irrespective of whether the misconduct

occurs at the workplace or during working hours.

10. Alien, unless the individual has been lawfully admitted

Misconduct (as defined in Chapter 443, Florida Statutes

for permanent residence or otherwise is permanently

(F.S.)) includes, but is not limited to:

residing in the United States under appearance of law

(including an alien who is lawfully present in the United

• Conduct showing a conscious disregard of an

States as a result of the provisions of the Immigration

employer’s interest as is found in deliberate violation

and Nationality Act).

Department of Revenue, Reemployment Assistance Benefits, Page 2

Form Rt-800001 - Employer Guide To Reemployment Assistance Benefits Page 2

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