PURPOSE: This rule informs reimbursable employers of their responsibility for employment benefits paid to their employees.

1. (1) Any employer that elects to make payments in lieu of unemployment contributions shall be liable for all unemployment benefits based on wages paid by the employer for services in employment. A reimbursable employer shall not have charges relieved pursuant to section 288.100, RSMo. A reimbursable employer shall, therefore, not be relieved of charges under any of the following circumstances:

   1. (A) The claimant was disqualified pursuant to section 288.050, RSMo;
   2. (B) The claimant continued part-time work with the employer while receiving partial unemployment benefits because of the claimant’s separation from another employer;
   3. (C) The claimant quit the employer for a more remunerative job or quit temporary work with the employer to return to the claimant’s regular employer;
   4. (D) The claimant worked less than twentyeight (28) days or earned less than four hundred dollars ($400) gross wages from the employer; or
   5. (E) The claimant was placed on a disqualification list maintained by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

AUTHORITY: section 288.220, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed Sept. 2, 2003, effective Feb. 29, 2004.

*Original authority: 288.220, RSMo 1951, amended 1955, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1971, 1995.