Sec.31-235-22. Efforts—general

(a) The Administrator shall require that for each week for which a claim for benefits is made, an individual shall make reasonable efforts to obtain work. The purpose of the work search requirement is to assist a claimant in obtaining suitable reemployment as expeditiously as possible by bringing the availability of the claimant’s skills and aptitudes to the attention of employers.

(b) The Administrator shall deny benefits to an individual on the basis of the individual’s failure to make reasonable efforts to obtain work only if the Administrator has determined the individual to be available for suitable work and the individual’s efforts to obtain work in a given week were inadequate in terms of quantity, type of work sought or method of work search utilized.

(c) The Administrator shall not deny benefits on the basis of a failure to make reasonable efforts, unless the Administrator has first advised the individual of the requirements of section 31-235 of the Connecticut General Statutes and given the individual an opportunity to comply.

(d) The Administrator shall determine the minimum number of work search efforts required per week based upon factors that include, but are not limited to, an individual’s length of unemployment, an individual’s work search results, local labor markets, and economic conditions.

(Effective June 24, 1986; Amended November 5, 2020)