Show Change proposed In Utah Employment act The advisory council to the Utah Department of Employment Security has accepted the recommendation of its subcommittee that Utah Employment Security Act be changed to provide potential duration of unemployment insurance pay ranging from 10 to 36 Curtis P. Administrator of the He said this provision is in contrast to the present law wherein potential duration ranges from 15 to The subcommittee which made the recommendation is made up of representatives of management and the as is the Advisory Council as a Harding pointed out that under the present a person working for only 19 weeks in his base period might be able to collect unemployment benefits for as long as 15 Under the proposed the individual working 19 weeks would be restricted to a potential duration of 10 On the other he a person working at least 43 out of 52 weeks in the base year prior to unemployment might be able to collect Insurance benefits for as many as 36 weeks which is slightly over eight The matter has been under intense study since last Harding At that the Utah Attorney General ruled that extension of benefits in Utah could not be accomplished without legislative Harding said it was the of the Council that Utah could provide its own extended benefit formula with less cost to the taxpayer than could be done under the federal provision passed by Congress last he pointed the Utah formula is not a stop-gap in it will provide unemployment pay to dislocated who are hurt either through recession or through technological Harding said that the greatest drain on the Utah reserve fund standing at approximately 38 million is seasonal unemployment and not that type of unemployment which comes from economic He pointed out that since January this approximately had exhausted their benefits compared to a year Much of the difference this he said stems from recession type unemployment rather than seasonal He added that in view of the difficulties which many of the unemployed are experiencing in finding it was considered advisable to propose changes in Utah's dur-not ordinarily unemployed would be given more time in which to make vocational changes or even retrain themselves for work in new With respect to cost of the Harding said that if employment conditions continue in the much the same as since World War an increase of of 1 per cent would be He said that George Clyde had been kept fully informed df the deliberations ol the subcommittee and that Governor Clyde favored the recently accepted formula change |