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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 87 Review shall enter an order in accordance with the mandate of the district or appellate court. Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 2-610, eff. Oct. 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 176, § 10, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2008, c. 132, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2011, c. 256, § 9; Laws 2021, c. 424, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.

§40-2-610.1. Conclusiveness of proceedings. Any findings of fact or law, judgment, conclusion or final order made by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, its referees, the Appeal Tribunal or Board of Review in an unemployment insurance proceeding shall not be conclusive or binding in any separate or subsequent action or proceeding, and shall not be used as evidence in any separate or subsequent action or proceeding, between an individual and his or her present or prior employer in any other forum regardless of whether or not the prior action was between the same or related parties or involved the same facts. Added by Laws 1991, c. 295, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Renumbered from § 2-610A of this title by Laws 2006, c. 176, § 29, eff. July 1, 2006.

§40-2-610A. Renumbered as § 2-610.1 of this title by Laws 2006, c. 176, § 29, eff. July 1, 2006.

§40-2-611. Commission is a party. COMMISSION IS A PARTY. The Commission shall be a party to and entitled to notice in any proceeding involving a claim for benefits before a referee or the Board of Review. In any proceeding for judicial review the Commission may be represented by any attorney employed by the Commission or designated by it for that purpose or, at the Commission's request, by the Attorney General. Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 2-611, eff. Oct. 1, 1980.

§40-2-612. Payment of benefits. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS. Benefits shall be promptly paid on any claim in accordance with a determination or redetermination or the decision of a referee, the Board of Review or a reviewing court upon the issuance of the determination, redetermination or decision, regardless of the pendency of an appeal, or petition for judicial review that is provided by the Employment Security Act of 1980, unless and until the determination, redetermination, or decision has been modified or reversed by a subsequent redetermination or decision, in which event benefits shall be paid or denied for weeks of unemployment thereafter in accordance with the modifying or reversing redetermination or decision. No injunction, supersedeas, stay or other writ or process suspending the payment of the benefits shall