§ 1302. Vermont Employment Security Board, composition, duties
(a) There is hereby created a board of three members to be known as the Vermont Employment Security Board. The members of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The term of each member shall be six years. Biennially, in the month of February, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint a person as a member of such Board for the term of six years, whose term of office shall commence March 1 of the year in which such appointment is made. Any appointment to a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term. In case of a vacancy by resignation, the member resigning shall continue in office until his or her successor is appointed. No more than two members of the Board shall be members of the same political party. Biennially, in the month of February, the Governor shall designate a member of such board to be its chair. The Governor may at any time remove a member of such Board for gross inefficiency, neglect of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office.
(b) The Board may hear and decide all matters appealed to it under this chapter. It shall determine its own methods of procedure. It may, with the approval of the Governor, adopt, amend, suspend, or rescind such rules and regulations as it considers necessary and consistent with this chapter. The rules and regulations of the Board shall have the force and effect of law after public hearing thereon of which reasonable notice has been given, and after filing with the Secretary of State, and publication in such manner as the Board shall prescribe. The Board may administer oaths, take depositions, certify to official acts, and subpoena witnesses and compel the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records necessary and material in the discharge of its duties imposed by this chapter. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. March 1, 1961; 1961, No. 210, § 1, eff. July 11, 1961.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 17 - Unemployment Compensation
§ 1301a. Department of Labor; composition
§ 1302. Vermont Employment Security Board, composition, duties
§ 1305. Divisions; Comprehensive Employment and Training Office
§ 1305a. Comprehensive Employment and Training Office
§ 1307. Commissioner of Labor, duties and powers of
§ 1309. Reports; solvency of Trust Fund
§ 1311a. Professional training for employees
§ 1312. Publication of rules, regulations, reports
§ 1314a. Quarterly wage reporting; misclassification; penalties
§ 1315. State-federal cooperation
§ 1317. Railroad Retirement Board
§ 1318. Reciprocal benefit arrangements
§ 1319. Agreements for collection and payment of contributions
§ 1320. Investigations; general powers
§ 1321. Contributions; taxable wage base changes
§ 1322a. Out-of-state or nonresident subcontractors
§ 1323. Termination of coverage; agreement by employee to make contribution
§ 1325. Employers’ experience-rating records; disclosure to successor entity
§ 1326. Rate based on benefit experience
§ 1327. Rate, reduction, conditions
§ 1328. Filing employer quarterly tax contribution reports; failure
§ 1329. Collection of unpaid contributions; suit
§ 1332. Review by board; Supreme Court appeal
§ 1336. Lien, fee, foreclosure
§ 1337. Adjustments and refunds
§ 1337a. Administrative determination; hearing on
§ 1339. Weekly benefit for partial unemployment
§ 1340. Computation of benefits
§ 1340a. Self-Employment Assistance Program
§ 1346. Claims for benefits; rules; notice
§ 1347. Nondisclosure or misrepresentation
§ 1349. Appeals to Board; Supreme Court appeal
§ 1350. Interested party disqualified on behalf of Commissioner
§ 1353. Collateral use prohibited
§ 1357. Notices; form and service
§ 1358. Unemployment Compensation Fund; establishment and control
§ 1359. Administration of Unemployment Compensation Fund
§ 1361. Management of Funds upon discontinuance of Unemployment Trust Fund
§ 1362. Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund
§ 1366. Protection of rights and benefits; waiver of rights void
§ 1367. Benefits not subject to assignment or trustee process
§ 1367a. Child support intercept of unemployment benefits
§ 1367b. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program intercept of unemployment benefits
§ 1368. False statements to increase payments
§ 1369. False statements to avoid unemployment program obligations
§ 1371. Each statement separate offense
§ 1372. Violation by corporate agent
§ 1373. General penalty; civil
§ 1374. Representation in court
§ 1376. Limitation of liability of State
§ 1377. Rights hereunder subject to legislative control
§ 1378. Requirements for obtaining license or governmental contract
§ 1379. Complaint of misclassification; enforcement by Attorney General
§ 1383. Severability of provisions
§ 1386. Operation dependent upon federal act
§ 1387. Suspension of contributions
§ 1422. Regular and extended benefits
§ 1423. Eligibility requirements for extended benefits
§ 1424. Weekly extended benefit amount
§ 1425. Total extended benefit amount
§ 1426. Beginning and termination of extended benefit period
§ 1427. Amendments to the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970
§ 1453. Approval or rejection; resubmission
§ 1454. Effective date; duration
§ 1458. Short-time compensation benefits
§ 1460. Extended benefits program eligibility