Here’s the major proposals on the ESC reform bill, S. 391.<\/p>\n
commissioners:<\/span> The commissioners\u2019 salaries must be approved by the Agency Head Salary Commission.\u00a0New commissioners must be 2 years removed from the General Assembly\u00a0Commissioners must be accountable to the Ethics Commission<\/p>\n at will<\/span>: Executive Director appointed by governor with advice and consent of Senate; serve at-will\u00a0The Executive Director, Assistant Directors and Area Directors are at-will employees\u00a0Tech schools, Commerce and Workforce must have compatible computers;<\/p>\n temp workers:<\/span> Workers placed by a temp service must return to the temp service for possible further assignment prior to filing for unemployment<\/p>\n fraud:<\/span> The department must increase investigations of fraud and misrepresentations by claimants, keep detailed records of all commission hearings and make them available to the General Assembly, improve interagency integration and data sharing, and refer all cases of significant claimant and\/or employer fraud to the Attorney General to determine whether to prosecute the offender (ESC can do all of this now. This is the resolution adapted to the statute.) fired employees:<\/span> Addition of \u201cgross misconduct\u201d as a list of items for which all benefits are denied and employee must re-establish their wage base with a new employer in order to draw future benefits. The list includes: wilful or reckless employee damage to employer property of more than fifty dollars; alcohol possession or use; theft of more than fifty dollars; criminal assault or battery; criminal abuse of patient or child in his professional care; willful failure to comply with a lawful, reasonable order; willful neglect of duty. All other \u201cfired for cause\u201d remains at the discretion of the ESC to disqualify from 5-26 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s the major proposals on the ESC reform bill, S. 391. commissioners: The commissioners\u2019 salaries must be approved by the Agency Head Salary Commission.\u00a0New commissioners must be 2 years removed from the General Assembly\u00a0Commissioners must be accountable to the Ethics Commission at will: Executive Director appointed by governor with advice and consent of Senate; serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey must promulgate regs on the hearing and appeals procedures.<\/p>\n