HOUSE BILL No. 5598

 

February 25, 2004, Introduced by Reps. Caswell, Brandenburg, Palmer, Drolet, Milosch, Nitz, Garfield, Bradstreet, Emmons, LaJoy, Taub, Tabor, Wenke, Stakoe, Casperson, Voorhees, Kooiman, Meyer, Caul, Pappageorge, Hummel, Mortimer and Sheen and referred to the Committee on Employment Relations, Training and Safety.

        

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                 A bill to amend 1936 (Ex Sess) PA 1, entitled                                     

                                                                                

    "Michigan employment security act,"                                         

                                                                                

    by amending section 42 (MCL 421.42).                                        

                                                                                

                THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:                      

                                                                                

1       Sec. 42.  (1) "Employment" means service, including service                 

                                                                                

2   in interstate commerce, performed for remuneration or under any             

                                                                                

3   contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied.                      

                                                                                

4       (2) "Employment" includes an individual's entire service,                   

                                                                                

5   performed within or both within and without this state if any of            

                                                                                

6   the following apply:                                                        

                                                                                

7       (a) The service is localized in this state.  Service  shall                 

                                                                                

8   be deemed to be  is localized within a state if the service is              

                                                                                

9   performed entirely within the state; or the service is performed            

                                                                                

10  both within and  without  outside the state, but the service                

                                                                                

11  performed  without  outside the state is incidental to the                  

                                                                                


                                                                                

1   individual's service within the state, such as service  which               

                                                                                

2   that is temporary or transitory in nature or consists of isolated           

                                                                                

3   transactions.                                                               

                                                                                

4       (b) The service is not localized in a state but some of the                 

                                                                                

5   service performed in this state and the base of operations, or,             

                                                                                

6   if there is not a base of operations, then the place from which             

                                                                                

7   the service is directed or controlled, is in this state; or the             

                                                                                

8   base of operations or place from which the service is directed or           

                                                                                

9   controlled is not in a state in which some part of the service is           

                                                                                

10  performed, but the individual's residence is in this state.                 

                                                                                

11      (c) After December 31, 1964, the service is not localized in                

                                                                                

12  any state but is performed by an employee on or in connection               

                                                                                

13  with an American aircraft, if either the contract of service is             

                                                                                

14  entered into within this state or if the contract of service is             

                                                                                

15  not entered into within this state or within any other state and            

                                                                                

16  during the performance of the contract of service and while the             

                                                                                

17  employee is employed on the aircraft, it touches at an airfield             

                                                                                

18  in this state, and the employee is employed on and in connection            

                                                                                

19  with the aircraft when outside the United States.  The commission           

                                                                                

20  may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states with                 

                                                                                

21  respect to  aircraft which  aircrafts that touch airfields in               

                                                                                

22  more than 1 state.                                                          

                                                                                

23      (3) Service performed within this state but not covered                     

                                                                                

24  under subsection (2) and not excluded under section 43  shall be            

                                                                                

25  deemed to be  is employment subject to this act if contributions            

                                                                                

26  are not required and paid with respect to those services under an           

                                                                                

27  unemployment compensation law of any other state or of the                  


                                                                                

1   federal government.                                                         

                                                                                

2       (4) Services, not covered under subsection (2), performed                   

                                                                                

3   entirely  without  outside this state, for which contributions              

                                                                                

4   are not required and paid under an unemployment compensation law            

                                                                                

5   of any other state or of the federal government,  shall be deemed           

                                                                                

6   to be  are employment subject to this act if the commission                 

                                                                                

7   approves the election of the employer for whom the services are             

                                                                                

8   performed that the entire service of the individual  shall be               

                                                                                

9   deemed to be  is employment subject to this act.  Such an                   

                                                                                

10  election may be canceled by the employer by filing a written                

                                                                                

11  notice with the commission before January 30 of any year stating            

                                                                                

12  the employer's desire to cancel the election or at any time by              

                                                                                

13  submitting to the commission satisfactory proof that the services           

                                                                                

14  designated in the election are covered by an unemployment                   

                                                                                

15  compensation law of another state or of the federal government,             

                                                                                

16  or if the services are covered by an arrangement  pursuant to               

                                                                                

17  under section 11 between the commission and the agency charged              

                                                                                

18  with the administration of any other state or federal                       

                                                                                

19  unemployment compensation law,  pursuant  according to which all            

                                                                                

20  services performed by an individual for an employing unit are               

                                                                                

21  deemed to be  considered performed entirely within the state,              

                                                                                

22  shall be  deemed to be  considered employment if the commission             

                                                                                

23  has approved an election of the employing unit for which the                

                                                                                

24  services are performed,  pursuant  according to which the entire            

                                                                                

25  service of the individual during the period covered by the                  

                                                                                

26  election is  deemed to be  employment.                                      

                                                                                

27      (5) Services performed by an individual for remuneration                    


                                                                                

1   shall not be deemed to be  are not considered employment subject           

                                                                                

2   to this act, unless the individual is under the employer's                  

                                                                                

3   control or direction as to the performance of the services both             

                                                                                

4   under a contract for hire and in fact.  Service performed by an             

                                                                                

5   individual for remuneration under an exclusive contract  which              

                                                                                

6   that provides for the individual's control and direction by a               

                                                                                

7   person, firm, or corporation possessing a public service permit             

                                                                                

8   or by a certificated motor carrier transporting goods or property           

                                                                                

9   for hire  shall be deemed  is considered employment subject to              

                                                                                

10  this act.  Service performed by an individual who by lease,                 

                                                                                

11  contract, or arrangement places at the disposal of a person,                

                                                                                

12  firm, or corporation a piece of motor vehicle equipment and under           

                                                                                

13  a contract of hire,  which  that provides for the individual's              

                                                                                

14  control and direction, is engaged by the person, firm, or                   

                                                                                

15  corporation to operate the motor vehicle equipment  shall be                

                                                                                

16  deemed to be  is employment subject to this act.                            

                                                                                

17      (6) Notwithstanding section 43, services performed for an                   

                                                                                

18  employing unit, for which the employing unit is liable for                  

                                                                                

19  federal tax against which credit may be taken for contributions             

                                                                                

20  required to be paid into a state unemployment compensation fund,            

                                                                                

21  shall be deemed to constitute  are employment for the purposes             

                                                                                

22  of this act, but only to the extent that the services constitute            

                                                                                

23  employment with respect to which federal tax is payable.                    

                                                                                

24  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act or any amendatory           

                                                                                

25  act, services performed for an employing unit  which  that are              

                                                                                

26  required to be covered under this act, as a condition for its               

                                                                                

27  certification by the United States secretary of labor, shall                


                                                                                

1   constitute employment for the purposes of this act.  The                    

                                                                                

2   commission may waive the provisions of this subsection with                 

                                                                                

3   respect to services performed within this state if the employing            

                                                                                

4   unit is an employer solely by reason of section 41(7) and                   

                                                                                

5   establishes that the services are covered by the election of the            

                                                                                

6   employing unit under any other state unemployment compensation              

                                                                                

7   law.  This subsection shall not apply to the exceptions provided            

                                                                                

8   in section 43(q).                                                           

                                                                                

9       (7) Notwithstanding subsection (2) all service performed                    

                                                                                

10  after December 31, 1964, by an officer or member of the crew of             

                                                                                

11  an American vessel on or in connection with the vessel is  deemed           

                                                                                

12  to be  employment subject to this act if the operating office,              

                                                                                

13  from which the operations of the vessel operating on navigable              

                                                                                

14  waters within, or within and  without  outside, the United States           

                                                                                

15  are ordinarily and regularly supervised, managed, directed, and             

                                                                                

16  controlled, is within this state.                                           

                                                                                

17      (8)(a) Service performed before January 1, 1978, by an                      

                                                                                

18  individual in the classified civil service of this state and                

                                                                                

19  service performed by an individual for a school district, a                 

                                                                                

20  community college district, a school or educational facility                

                                                                                

21  owned or operated by the state other than an institution of                 

                                                                                

22  higher education, or a political subdivision of the state, except           

                                                                                

23  a political subdivision  which  that has a local unemployment               

                                                                                

24  compensation system as provided in former section 13j, is                   

                                                                                

25  employment subject to this act.                                             

                                                                                

26      (b) Service performed after December 31, 1977, in the employ                

                                                                                

27  of a governmental entity as defined in section 50a is employment            


                                                                                

1   subject to this act.                                                        

                                                                                

2       (9) "Employment" includes service performed after December                  

                                                                                

3   31, 1971, by an individual in the employ of this state or any of            

                                                                                

4   its instrumentalities for a state hospital or state institution             

                                                                                

5   of higher education, or in the employ of this state and 1 or more           

                                                                                

6   other states or their instrumentalities for a hospital or                   

                                                                                

7   institution of higher education located in this state.  Coverage            

                                                                                

8   of services performed for these hospitals and institutions of               

                                                                                

9   higher education after December 31, 1977, shall be determined               

                                                                                

10  pursuant  according to  section 42(8)(b)  subsection (8)(b).               

                                                                                

11      (10) "Employment" includes service performed after December                 

                                                                                

12  31, 1971, by an individual in the employ of a religious,                    

                                                                                

13  charitable, educational, or other organization  which  that is              

                                                                                

14  excluded from the term "employment" as defined in the federal               

                                                                                

15  unemployment tax act, 26 USC 3301 to 3311, solely by reason of              

                                                                                

16  section 3306(c)(8) of the federal unemployment tax act, 26 USC              

                                                                                

17  3306.                                                                       

                                                                                

18      (11) "Employment" includes service performed after December                 

                                                                                

19  31, 1971, by an individual for his principal as an agent driver             

                                                                                

20  or commission driver engaged in distributing beverages, meat,               

                                                                                

21  vegetable, fruit, bakery, dairy, or other food products, or                 

                                                                                

22  laundry or dry cleaning services; or as a traveling or city                 

                                                                                

23  salesman, other than as an agent driver or commission driver,               

                                                                                

24  engaged upon a full-time basis in the solicitation on behalf of,            

                                                                                

25  and the transmission to, his principal except for sideline sales            

                                                                                

26  activities on behalf of some other person, of orders from                   

                                                                                

27  wholesalers, retailers, contractors, operators of hotels,                   


                                                                                

1   restaurants, or other similar establishments for merchandise for            

                                                                                

2   resale or supplies for use in their business operations.  For               

                                                                                

3   purposes of this subsection, "employment" includes services                 

                                                                                

4   performed after December 31, 1971, only if all of the following             

                                                                                

5   apply:                                                                      

                                                                                

6       (a) The contract of service contemplates that substantially                 

                                                                                

7   all of the services are to be performed personally by the                   

                                                                                

8   individual.                                                                 

                                                                                

9       (b) The individual does not have a substantial investment in                

                                                                                

10  facilities used in connection with the performance of the                   

                                                                                

11  services other than in facilities for transportation.                       

                                                                                

12      (c) The services are not in the nature of a single                          

                                                                                

13  transaction  which  that is not part of a continuing relationship           

                                                                                

14  with the person for whom the services are performed.                        

                                                                                

15      (12) "Employment" includes service performed by a United                    

                                                                                

16  States citizen outside the United States after December 31, 1971,           

                                                                                

17  except in Canada, and in the Virgin Islands after December 31,              

                                                                                

18  1971, and before January 1 of the year following the year in                

                                                                                

19  which the United States secretary of labor approves the                     

                                                                                

20  unemployment compensation law of the Virgin Islands under section           

                                                                                

21  3304(a) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 3304, while            

                                                                                

22  in the employ of an American employer and is other than service             

                                                                                

23  which  that is employment  pursuant  according to subsection (2)           

                                                                                

24  or a parallel provision of another state's law, if 1 of the                 

                                                                                

25  following requirements of subdivision (a), (b), or (c) are met:             

                                                                                

26      (a) The employer's principal place of business in the United                

                                                                                

27  States is located in this state.                                            


                                                                                

1       (b) The employer does not have a place of business in the                   

                                                                                

2   United States, but the employer is any of the following:                    

                                                                                

3                                                                                (i) An individual who is a resident of this state.                                  

                                                                                

4       (ii) A corporation  which  that is organized under the laws                  

                                                                                

5   of this state.                                                              

                                                                                

6       (iii) A partnership or a trust and the number of the                         

                                                                                

7   partners or trustees who are residents of this state is greater             

                                                                                

8   than the number who are residents of any  one  1 other state.               

                                                                                

9       (c) None of the criteria of subdivisions (a) and (b)  is                    

                                                                                

10  are met but the employer elected coverage of the service under              

                                                                                

11  this act, or the employer failed to elect coverage in any state             

                                                                                

12  and the individual filed a claim for benefits based on the                  

                                                                                

13  service under the law of this state.                                        

                                                                                

14      (d) An "American employer", for purposes of this subsection,                

                                                                                

15  means a person who is  one  1 of the following:                             

                                                                                

16                                                                               (i) An individual who is a resident of the United States.                           

                                                                                

17      (ii) A partnership if 2/3 or more of the partners are                        

                                                                                

18  residents of the United States.                                             

                                                                                

19      (iii) A trust, if all of the trustees are residents of the                   

                                                                                

20  United States.                                                              

                                                                                

21      (iv) A corporation organized under the laws of the United                    

                                                                                

22  States or of any state.                                                     

                                                                                

23      (e) As used in this subsection, "United States" includes the                

                                                                                

24  states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto            

                                                                                

25  Rico.                                                                       

                                                                                

26      (13) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the                   

                                                                                

27  term "employment"  shall include  includes an individual's                  


                                                                                

1   service, wherever performed within the United States, the Virgin            

                                                                                

2   Islands, or Canada, if the service is not covered under the                 

                                                                                

3   unemployment compensation law of any other state, the Virgin                

                                                                                

4   Islands, or Canada, and the place from which the service is                 

                                                                                

5   directed or controlled is in this state.                                    

                                                                                

6       (14) "Employment" does not include service performed in an                  

                                                                                

7   Americorps program.