All letters, reports, communications, or any other matters, either oral or written, from the employer or employee to each other or to the department or any of its agents, representatives or employees, which shall have been written, sent, delivered or made in connection with the requirements and administration of this chapter shall be absolutely privileged and shall not be made the subject matter or basis of any suit for slander or libel in any court of the State of Mississippi unless the same be false in fact and maliciously written, sent, delivered or made for the purpose of causing a denial of benefits under this chapter.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation
Article 3 - Mississippi Department of Employment Security
§ 71-5-111. Employment security administration fund
§ 71-5-112. Funds to clear through state treasury; laws governing expenditures
§ 71-5-113. Funds received from the Social Security Board
§ 71-5-114. Special employment security administration fund
§ 71-5-115. Duties and powers of executive director
§ 71-5-117. Regulations and general rules
§ 71-5-125. Promotion of employment
§ 71-5-129. Destruction of useless records
§ 71-5-131. Privileged communications
§ 71-5-133. Failure to produce records
§ 71-5-135. Failure to make reports
§ 71-5-137. Oaths and witnesses
§ 71-5-141. Protection against self-incrimination
§ 71-5-143. State-federal cooperation
§ 71-5-145. 1235 Echelon Parkway named the Henry J. Kirksey Building