Section 127.07. Reemployment services.

 

(1)  The department may require a claimant to participate in a public employment office workshop, training program, or similar reemployment services which offers instruction in improving the claimant's skills for finding and obtaining employment. The claimant shall be ineligible for benefits for any given week for which the department determines that the claimant failed, without good cause, to participate in such a workshop, training program, or similar reemployment services.

(2)  The department may find that a claimant has justifiable cause for failure to participate in reemployment services in any given week. Justifiable cause for failure to participate in reemployment services includes that the claimant is unable to participate due to any of the following:

(a) The claimant is summoned to serve as a prospective or impaneled juror.

(b) The claimant is enrolled and satisfactorily participating in a course of training approved by the department, in a work share program under s. 108.062 (10m) , Stats., in a self-employment assistance program, or another program designed to assist individuals to become employed that has been enacted by the Wisconsin or federal legislature.

(c) The claimant is employed.

(d) The claimant is attending a job interview.

(e) Circumstances which the department determines are beyond the claimant's control.

Cr. Register, July, 1984, No. 343 , eff. 8-1-84; EmR1316 : emerg. am., (title), (1), r. and recr. (2) eff. 9-29-13; CR 13-081 : am. (title), (1), r. and recr. (2) Register April 2014 No. 700 , eff. 5-1-14.