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Executive Order 2020-08

Suspension of unemployment insurance work-registration, work-search and requalification requirements for COVID-19-related unemployment; employer accounts not charged

Governor Doug Burgum · North Dakota (State)

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Jurisdiction
North Dakota
Level
State
Authority
N.D. Const. art. V, § 1; N.D.C.C. ch. 37-17.1
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-03-13 (retroactive) (read as 2020-03-13)
End
Work registration and search restored July 26, 2020 (EO 2020-08.2); EO 2020-08 terminated by EO 2020-44 (Dec. 18, 2020); successor EO 2020-08.3 (Dec. 31, 2020) ended with EO 2021-09 (Apr. 30, 2021) (read as 2020-12-31)
In force
Mar. 13, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • Job Service North Dakota
  • employers (base-period charging)
  • claimants
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (unemployment during closures)
  • HR
Collection
North Dakota ND

Operative words

Effective March 13, 2020, those portions of NDCC 52-04-07 specifying the charging of base-period employers are suspended under the following circumstances: Benefits paid to an individual whose unemployment is related directly or indirectly to COVID-19 shall not be charged against the accounts of the individual's employer.... the requirement in N.D.C.C. § 52-06-01 (2)(a) that an individual must register for work shall be suspended for those individuals whose unemployment is related to COVID-19.

Enforcement

Suspension of statutory requirements

Notes

Recites 'undue economic hardships resulting from unemployment directly resulting from the implementation of federal and state guidelines to mitigate the spread of COVID-19' and impacts on 'businesses in the energy sector'. Context for workforce availability; not itself a limitation on commerce.

Retrieval note

Corrects the bundled row: EO 2020-08 is an unemployment-insurance order, not a travel-quarantine order. The travel quarantine was State Health Officer Order 2020-02 and its amendments (Exs. ND-014, ND-021, ND-056).

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