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Title 7: SNAP Page 33 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter C: Nonfinancial Eligibility Work Registration Revised September 27, 2024 Work Requirements for MWRs  The job is on a piece-rate basis and the average hourly earnings are less than the hourly wage as defined above.  The person must join, resign from, or refrain from joining any legitimate labor organization to get or keep the job.  The job offered is at a site currently subject to a strike or lockout, unless the strike has been enjoined under Section 208 of the Labor-Management Relations Act (commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act), or unless an injunction has been issued under Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act.  The distance from the person’s home to the place of employment is unreasonable, considering the expected wage and the time and cost of commuting. The person makes this determination.  Daily commuting time exceeds two hours per day, not including taking a child to and from a child care facility. When a household move results in more than two hours commuting time the job is unsuitable. This includes moves within the state as well as from state to state. This applies whether a person leaves a job before or after the move.  The distance to the place of employment is too far to walk, and neither public nor private transportation is available to get the person to the job site. The person makes this determination.  The household member involved can show, or you become aware of, any of the following: • There is an unreasonable degree of health and safety risk. • The person is physically or mentally unfit to perform the job, as documented by medical evidence or by reliable information from other sources. • The job is offered within the first 30 days of registration and is not in the person’s major field of experience. • The working hours or nature of the job interferes with the person’s religious observances, convictions, or beliefs. Voluntary Quit Legal reference: 7 CFR 273.7(j) Policy: Mandatory work registrants are not eligible for SNAP benefits when they voluntarily quit a job that provided 30 hours a week of work or weekly earnings at least equivalent to the federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours. Procedure: Consider it “voluntary quit” when:  A person quits suitable employment voluntarily without good cause. See the policies Verifying a Claim of Good Cause for Not Complying and Determining if Employment Is Suitable to determine if the person had good cause to quit.