California Unemployment Insurance Code

§ 1256.4

UIC § 1256.4 Effective Jan 1, 2006Div. 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 5 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)An individual is disqualified for unemployment compensation benefits if either of the following occur:

(1)The director finds that he or she was discharged from his or her most recent work for chronic absenteeism due to intoxication or reporting to work while intoxicated or using intoxicants on the job, or gross neglect of duty while intoxicated, when any of these incidents is caused by an irresistible compulsion to use or consume intoxicants, including alcoholic beverages.

(2)He or she otherwise left his or her most recent employment for reasons caused by an irresistible compulsion to use or consume intoxicants, including alcoholic beverages.

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Legislative history

Added by renumbering Section 1256.5 by Stats. 2005, Ch. 152, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 2006.