1. (1) The Department shall consider a totally unemployed worker to have registered for work in any week for which the worker has filed a claim for benefits unless the worker refused or failed to report for a placement interview.

2. (2) The Department shall not consider the worker to have registered for work:

   1. (a) any week in which the worker has been offered the opportunity to report for a placement interview in accordance with the rules and policy of the Department and the worker has refused or failed to report for such interview, and
   2. (b) each subsequent week after the worker refused or failed to report for a placement interview until such placement interview has been completed.

Authority: T.C.A. §§50-7-602 and 50-7-603. Administrative History: Original rule certified May 17, 1974. Repeal and new rule filed January 22, 1996; effective May 30, 1996. Amendment filed May 22, 2001; effective September 28, 2001. August 15, 2009, the Secretary of State transferred 0560-01-01 to 0800-09-01 per Chapter 520 of Public Acts of 1999 and T.C.A. 4-5-221(a)(1).