268.125 Additional reemployment compensation benefits. 

    Subdivision 1.    Additional benefits; when available.  
 Additional benefits are available if: 

    (1) at a facility that had 100 or more employees, the 
 employer reduced operations, resulting within a one-month period 
 in the layoff of 50 percent or more of the facility's work 
 force, including reductions caused as a result of a major 
 natural disaster declared by the president; 

    (2) the employer has no expressed plan to resume operations 
 that would lead to the reemployment of those employees in the 
 immediate future; and 

    (3) the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the county 
 that the facility is located was ten percent or more during the 
 month of the reduction or any of the three months before or 
 after the month of the reduction. 

    Subd. 2.    Payment of benefits.  Additional benefits 
 are payable from the fund.  

    Subd. 3.    Eligibility conditions.  An applicant is 
 eligible to receive additional benefits for any week during the 
 applicant's benefit year if:  

    (1) the applicant was laid off from employment as a result 
 of a reduction under subdivision 1 or was laid off due to lack 
 of work from that employer during the three-month period before, 
 or the three-month period after, the month of the reduction 
 under subdivision 1; 

    (2) the applicant meets the eligibility requirements under 
 section 268.085; 

    (3) the applicant is not subject to a disqualification 
 under section 268.095; for the purpose of this subdivision, the 
 disqualifying conditions in section 268.095, and the 
 requalifying requirements, apply to the receipt of additional 
 benefits; 

    (4) the applicant has exhausted regular benefits under 
 section 268.07, is not entitled to receive extended benefits 
 under section 268.115, and is not entitled to receive benefits 
 under any other state or federal law for that week; 

    (5) a majority of the applicant's wage credits were from 
 the employer that had a reduction in operations under 
 subdivision 1. 

    Subd. 4.    Weekly benefit amount.  An applicant's 
 weekly additional benefit amount shall be the same as the 
 applicant's weekly benefit amount during the current benefit 
 year under section 268.07. 

    Subd. 5.    Maximum amount of benefits.  The maximum 
 amount of additional benefits available in the applicant's 
 benefit year shall be one-half of the applicant's maximum amount 
 of regular benefits available under section 268.07, subdivision 
 2.  Extended benefits paid and benefits paid under any federal 
 law other than regular benefits shall be deducted from the 
 maximum amount of additional benefits available. 

    HIST: 1987 c 362 s 17; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1994 c 503 s 1-3; 1996 
 c 417 s 13-15; 1997 c 66 s 79; 2Sp1997 c 2 s 18,19; 1998 c 265 s 
 32; 1999 c 107 s 49-51,66