The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Unemployment Insurance (federal agency)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 503(a) (methods of administration); 20 C.F.R. 601.3
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-12
- End
- Superseded in part by UIPL 13-20 and the CARES Act letters (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 12, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationOther
- Addressees
- State Workforce Agencies (all 53 jurisdictions)
- Functions reached
- WF workforce: federal guidance that quarantined, exposed and laid-off workers qualify for UC (able-and-available, work-search and waiting-week flexibilities), the framework within which every employer's furloughs occurred
- HR layoffs and furloughs
- OP employer UI account charging
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
1. Purpose. To provide guidance to states regarding unemployment compensation (UC) flexibilities related to COVID-19.... The Administration is actively working with states to ensure they have the guidance needed about UC flexibilities related to COVID-19 in order to assist individuals affected by the disease.
Enforcement
Conformity and compliance with federal UC law as a condition of State administrative grants and FUTA credits (42 U.S.C. 503; 26 U.S.C. 3304(c))
Notes
The first federal labor instrument of the pandemic (March 12, 2020); context for the workforce ecosystem (ECO-B).
Retrieval noteLargely image PDF; first page text confirmed.