Application for Criteria for Determining Full-time Work
Effective Jan 12, 2018Mass. Register #1356MGL c. 23, § 9J MGL c. 29, § 9J MGL c. 151A, §§ 1, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28a(b), 37, 66, 68Department of Unemployment Assistance
- (1) The number of hours spent on the work and the wages earned for the week(s) will dictate whether the work was full-time or part-time.
- (2) The claimant's most recent work will be presumed to be full-time if he or she worked the normal full-time hours of the occupation in which the claimant was employed.
- (3) The claimant's most recent work will, in the case of multiple contemporaneous employers, be presumed full-time if he or she worked more hours or earned more money in the most recent work than in all other contemporaneous employment.
- (4) If a claimant is employed by multiple "most recent" employers under substantially the same terms of wages and hours, the claimant will be presumed to have worked full-time for the employer with which he or she has had the longest duration of employment.