705 Suitable Employment

An individual who refused to accept a bona fide offer of suitable employment to which referred shall be disqualified as noted above. Any employment shall be considered unsuitable if: 1. The wage offered is less than the highest of: The applicable federal minimum wage. The training wage shall be substituted for persons receiving the training wage mandated by the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1989. (Limited to 90 day period and under age 20.) The applicable state minimum wage or The training wage shall be substituted for persons receiving the training wage mandated by the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1989. (Limited to a 90 day period and under age 20.) Eighty percent (80%) of the federal minimum wage, if neither the federal nor the state minimum wage is applicable. 2. The employment offered is on a piece-rate basis, and the average hourly yield the employee can reasonably be expected to earn is less than the applicable hourly wages specified above. 3. The household member, as a condition of employment or continuing employment, is required to join, resign from, or refrain from joining any legitimate labor organization. 4. The work offered is at a site subject to a strike or lockout at the time of the offer, unless the strike has been enjoined under Section 208 of the Labor-Management Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 78) which is known as the Taft-Hartley Act, or unless an injunction has been issued under Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 160). 5. In addition, employment shall be considered suitable unless the household member involved can demonstrate or the county department otherwise becomes aware that: a) The degree of risk to health and safety is unreasonable. b) The member is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment, as documented by medical evidence or by reliable information from other sources. c) The employment offered within the first 30 days of registration is not in the member’s major field of experience. d) The distance from the member’s home to the place of employment is unreasonable considering the expected wage and the time and cost of commuting. Employment shall not be considered suitable if daily commuting time exceeds two hours per day not including the transporting of a child to and from a child care facility. Nor shall employment be considered suitable if the distance to the place of employment prohibits walking and neither public nor private transportation is available to transport the member to the job site. e) The working hours or nature of the employment interferes with the member’s religious observances, convictions, or beliefs. For example, a Sabbatarian could refuse to work the Sabbath and not affect the household eligibility.