2004 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

Following is The Business Council's 2004 Legislative Program. It identifies priority issues to be addressed by the Committees and Councils during 2004.

Support:

• Use of the principles of experience rating, necessity, lowest cost to the economy, and contemporary timing in the design of any revised funding of the UC Trust Fund.
  
  
• Creation of separate General Accounts for taxable employers, reimbursable government employers, and reimbursable private employers.
  
  
• Increase of the requalification standards from five times a claimant's benefit level to ten times.
  
  
• Facilitation of communication of work interruptions to chargeable employers.
  
  
• Weekly communication of benefit charge notices to employers.