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Show State Director Explains Employee Compensation What the Supreme Court decision decis-ion on the jobless compensation means to the Utah unemployed of the future is shown in a report issued by Ray R. Adams, director of the unemployment compensation compensa-tion division of the state industrial commission. Mr. Adam's report shows that 70,000 employees will receive this protection; 26,000 employers are subject to payment of contributions; contribu-tions; no contributions are made by employees; benefits to begin in January of 1938; benefits will be half-pay but not more than S15 a week; benefits will continue for not more than four months; exact amount of benefits depends upon each individual's earning record; rec-ord; employers are now sending in the earning records on individual employees for the first three months of this year; employers contributed nearly S800,000 in' the 1936 pay rolls and have now contributed con-tributed $400,000 for the first quarter of 1937. According to Mr. Adams total collections for the unemployment compensation fund to date approximately approx-imately Sl.200,000. He further states that when benefits are payable pay-able in 1938 the fund will have reached about S2.300.000. "To get benefits," said Mr. Adams, "an applicant must have worked in an industry covered by (Continued on page eight) 'Employee Compensation l Continued from first page) unemployment compensation; must have ?os"t his job; must report to I a state employment office and be available for suitable work It a l job is forthcoming he must ake ;u or lose his right at that . t me 'to benefits. If there is no job, benefits will be paid on the basis of half-pay for not to exceed 16 weeks. The offer of the job by the employment office must be a reasonable" reas-onable" one-one which the man can be reasonably expected to do without injury to health or morals without undue travel, and must not be strike-breaking. "All employees must have their social security number. This applies ap-plies to those over 65 as well as those under 65. "Farm labor, domestic service in private homes, educational, chari-table, chari-table, religious service, certain family service are not covered by the unemployment compensation law. Those who work for an employer em-ployer of less than four are not protected." |