Rynek pracy · 3.12.1999

Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation

The Department of Labor (DOL) is issuing for comment a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to create, by regulation, an opportunity for State agencies that administer the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program to pay, under a voluntary experimental program, UC to parents who take time off from employment after the birth or placement for adoption of a child. This effort responds to the President's Executive Memorandum issued May 24, 1999, directing the Secretary of Labor to allow States the opportunity to develop innovative ways of using UC to support parents taking leave to be with their newborns or newly-adopted children and to evaluate the effectiveness of using the UC system for these or related purposes. This regulation will permit interested States to experiment with methods for allowing the use of the UC program for this purpose.