27-3-306. Eligibility requirements; waiver or amendment authorized; unemployed waiting period; registration and referral for suitable work.

(a) An unemployed individual is eligible for benefits under this article for any week if he:

(i) Registers for work with the department of workforce services and actively seeks work in accordance with regulations of the commission, unless he will be recalled to full-time work:

(A) By an employer who paid fifty percent (50%) or more of his base period wages;

(B) Within twelve (12) weeks by an employer.

(ii) Files a benefit claim for that week in accordance with regulations of the commission;

(iii) Is able and available for work;

(iv) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 186, § 3.

(v) Earned wages for insured work in amounts specified by subsection (d) of this section;

(vi) As a corporate officer, is unemployed, certifies unemployment and otherwise satisfies the requirements of this subsection;

(vii) Continues to report to a department office in accordance with regulations of the commission; and

(viii) Participates in reemployment services such as job search assistance services if the individual is determined to be likely to exhaust regular benefits and to require reemployment services pursuant to a profiling system established by the department, unless the department determines:

(A) The individual has completed reemployment services; or

(B) There is justifiable cause for the claimant's failure to participate in these services.

(b) The commission may by regulation waive or amend the requirements of this section for individuals attached to regular work or other situations in which these requirements are inconsistent with this act. Regulations of the commission shall not conflict with W.S. 27-3-303.

(c) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 186, § 3.

(d) To qualify under paragraph (a)(v) of this section, an individual shall have earned:

(i) Wages for insured work during his base period of not less than eight percent (8%) of the statewide average annual wage computed under W.S. 27-3-303(a) rounded to the lowest fifty dollars ($50.00);

(ii) Repealed by Laws 1993, ch. 19, § 2.

(iii) Wages for insured work of one and four-tenths (1.4) times the high quarter earnings in his base period; and

(iv) Not less than eight (8) times the weekly benefit amount of his current claim for services after the beginning of the next preceding benefit year in which benefits were received. This paragraph applies only if the base period is the first four (4) of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of the benefit year. Services under this paragraph must be performed in an employer-employee relationship but are not required to qualify as employment under W.S. 27-3-104 through 27-3-108.

(e) The department of workforce services shall register and refer eligible benefit claimants under this article to suitable work meeting criteria prescribed by W.S. 27-3-312 for regular benefits and by W.S. 27-3-317(e) for extended benefits.