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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 760

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

4.

Any unemployed individual is eligible to receive
benefits with respect to any week only if the Executive
Director finds that:

(e) An individual who has received benefits in a
benefit year shall not be eligible for benefits in a
subsequent benefit year unless such individual shall have
earned EARNS, AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST BENEFIT YEAR,
wages as a result of performing services in the employ of
another, equal to not less than ten times his weekly benefit
amount FOR THE SUBSEQUENT BENEFIT YEAR after the beginning
of the first of such benefit years.

6.

An individual shall be disqualified for benefits:

(d) If the Executive Director finds that he failed,
without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable
work, when so directed by the Executive Director, or to
accept suitable work when offered him, or to return to his
customary self-employment (if any) when so directed by the
Executive Director. Such disqualification shall be
effective [from the date] FOR THE WEEK when the application
for work was to have been made, or when he was notified that
suitable work became available to him, or when directed to
return to his customary self-employment by the Executive
Director, whichever is later, and shall continue for not
less than one or more than ten weeks immediately following
thereafter or until such individual has become reemployed
and has earnings therein equal to at least ten (10) times
his weekly benefit amount.

(1)  In determining whether or not any work is
suitable for an individual, the Executive Director shall
consider the degree of risk involved to his health, safety,
and morals, his physical fitness and prior training, his
experience and prior earnings, his length of unemployment
and prospects for securing local work in his customary
occupation, and the distance of the available work from his
residence.

(2)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
article, no work shall be deemed suitable and benefits shall
not be denied under this article to any otherwise eligible
individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the
following conditions: (A) If the position offered is vacant
due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute;
(B) if the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work
offered are substantially less favorable to the individual
than those prevailing for similar work in the locality; (C)
if as a condition of being employed the individual would be
required to join a company union or to resign from or
refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization.