New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 17 - UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PAYMENTS
Subchapter 9 - CLAIM ADJUDICATION-VOLUNTARILY LEAVING WORK
Section 12:17-9.6 - Voluntary leaving work - trailing spouse or civil union partner
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) No otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week in which the individual left work voluntarily and without good cause attributable to the work, if the individual left work to accompany his or her spouse or civil union partner who is an active member of the United States Armed Forces, as defined in 38A:1-1(g), to a new place of residence outside the State, due to the armed forces member's transfer to a new assignment in a different geographical location outside the State, provided that the following requirements are also met:
(b) No employer's account shall be charged for the payment of benefits to an individual who left work under the circumstances set forth in (a) above, except that this shall not be construed as relieving the State of New Jersey and any other governmental entity or instrumentality or nonprofit organization electing or required to make payments in lieu of contributions from its responsibility to make all benefit payments otherwise required by law and from being charged for those benefits as otherwise required by law.
