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Show EdcIS tare iGge oofit mlaM eration. As a result, un 7 employment compensation policies in Utah generally have evolved through mutual negotiation and prior agreements agree-ments reached by labor, management, and public representatives. ticular philosophy, but as the administrators for whatever what-ever system the legislature provides for our State." Proposed changes in Utah's Ut-ah's unemployment compensation compen-sation law are now being re- ' viewed by the Employment Security Advisory Council. This Council consists of representatives of business, labor, and the general public. Its purpose is to review ( changes in the unemployment compensation law before 1 they are submitted to the legislative body for consid- Over the years, the unemployment unem-ployment compensation program pro-gram has become less of a work related system and more of an income -maintenance system. This was the conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, the private research re-search organization in a study of unemployment benefit bene-fit problems in Utah. The Foundation points out that when the unemployment insurance program was first developed more than forty years ago, it was intended to provide temporary assistance assis-tance to those who were out of work through no fault of their own. Today, many individuals in-dividuals having only a casual cas-ual attachment to the labor force have come to regard unemployment benefits as a regular supplement to family fam-ily income. For such indi- viduals, there often is little incentive to seek new employment once they have qualified for unemployment benefits. Similarly, the study observes ob-serves that there are some employers who use the unemployment un-employment compensation program asameansofmain-taining asameansofmain-taining a pool of available workers during non-peak production periods at relatively rela-tively little cost to them. Last year, a report by Utah Foundation indicatedthat Utah's Ut-ah's unemployment benefit bene-fit was was considerably more liberal than most states with respect to persons per-sons who voluntarily quit, are discharged for misconduct, miscon-duct, or fail to apply for suitable suit-able work. This general conclusion con-clusion also was confirmed earlier this year in a performance per-formance audit by the Utah Legislative Auditor General. Both studies also emphasized empha-sized that a major problem exists with the secondary wage earner who has only a casual attachment to the labor la-bor force. An economic analysis which accompanied the Legislative Auditor's performance audit of Utah's unemployment insurance program arrived at three main conclusions: 1. More liberal benefits lead to higher unemployment rates. 2. Requirements for an active work search and a higher benefit denial rate will tend to lower unemployment unemploy-ment rates. 3. Increased monitoring of claimants who fail to apply ap-ply for or accept suitable work will reduce unemployment. unemploy-ment. These conclusions were used by the Legislative Auditor Au-ditor General in formulating formulat-ing a series of recommendations recommen-dations designed to strengthen strength-en the Utah unemployment compensation program. The Foundation reports that most of the problem areas indicated by the Utah Foundation and the Legislative Legisla-tive Auditor's studies involve in-volve the statutes under which the unemployment benefit program operates. Employment Security officials of-ficials point out that "we recognize that our role is not as sponsors of any par- |