| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the disqualification of certain temporary employees for |
|
|
unemployment compensation benefits. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 207.045(h), Labor Code, is amended to |
|
|
read as follows: |
|
|
(h) A temporary employee of a temporary help firm is |
|
|
considered to have left the employee's last work voluntarily |
|
|
without good cause connected with the work if the temporary |
|
|
employee failed, without good cause, to [does not] contact the |
|
|
temporary help firm for reassignment on completion of an |
|
|
assignment. A temporary employee is not considered to have left |
|
|
work voluntarily without good cause connected with the work under |
|
|
this subsection unless the temporary employee has been advised: |
|
|
(1) that the temporary employee is obligated to |
|
|
contact the temporary help firm on completion of assignments; and |
|
|
(2) that unemployment benefits may be denied if the |
|
|
temporary employee fails to do so. |
|
|
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
|
|
to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits filed with the |
|
|
Texas Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this |
|
|
Act. A claim filed before the effective date of this Act is |
|
|
governed by the law in effect on the date the claim was filed, and |
|
|
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |