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A-8301 Division of Welfare and Supportive Services EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING Eligibility and Payments Manual Determining Good Cause MTL 12/04 12 Jul 01

● Discrimination by an employer based on age, race, sex, color, handicap, religious belief, national origin, or political beliefs; ● Work demands or conditions that make continued employment unreasonable (e.g., not being paid on time, seasonal/tourist type employment, etc.); ● A change of job; ● Illness of the participating member or another household member; ● Enrollment (at least half time) in a recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education that requires the head of household to quit a job ● Household emergency; ● Relocation to another county or political subdivision because of another household member's employment or school enrollment; ● Resignations by people under 60 years old that the employer recognizes as retirement; ● A job change that later does not materialize or results in employment of less than 30 hours a week or weekly earnings of less than the federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours; ● A habitual job change (e.g., migrant work or construction habitually require workers to move from one employer to another); ● An unsuitable job. Employment is unsuitable if

● The wages are less than the highest of: – the applicable federal minimum wage; or – eighty percent of the federal minimum wage, if the federal minimum wage is not applicable. ● The average hourly wage based on piece-rate is less than minimum wage; ● The household member, as a condition of employment, must join, resign from, or not join a labor organization; ● The work is at a place subject to a strike or lock-out at the time of the offer;

Exceptions: – the strike has been enjoined under Section 208 of the Labor-Management Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 178-Taft Hartley Act); or – an injunction has been issued under Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 160) ● The degree of risk to health and safety is unreasonable; ● The household member is physically or mentally unfit for the job; ● The commuting time from the household member's home to the job is more than two hours a day. Note: Taking a child to and from a child care facility is not included.

● The distance from home to the job is unreasonable because, after considering commuting time and costs, the member earns less than minimum wage; ● The distance to the job prohibits walking, and transportation is unavailable; ● The job is outside the member's usual line of work. (This applies only during the first 30 days and does not apply if the member voluntarily quits a job.).