{"id":1131,"date":"2012-09-02T00:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ua-cpas.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:33:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:33:46","slug":"nj-court-rules-non-immigrant-workers-ineligible-for-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/02\/nj-court-rules-non-immigrant-workers-ineligible-for-unemployment-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Court Rules: Non-Immigrant Workers Ineligible for Unemployment Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under N.J.S.A. 43:21-4(c), to be eligible for unemployment benefits one must be \u201cavailable for work\u201d. An interesting question arose in Mukatoff v Board of Review with regard to non-immigrant workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In order to work as a non-immigrant one must obtain a written work authorization from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To obtain this authorization one must present appropriate documentation by the prospective employer. Once authorized by the DHS, he or she may only work for that identified employer. This poses a question. If that non-immigrant is subsequently laid off, does the lack of authorization to work for another employer exclude one from being considered \u201cavailable for work\u201d and therefore disqualify them from receiving unemployment benefits?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In Mukatoff v Board of Review, Vlad Y. Makutoff, a non-immigrant from Canada, was authorized by the DHS to work for an accounting firm in the United States. Makutoff was subsequently laid off and began collecting unemployment benefits. The NJ Supreme Court ruled that Makutoff was not eligible to collect those benefits, as he wasn\u2019t considered \u201cavailable for work\u201d. He was ordered to pay back all the unemployment benefits he had received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ Unemployment Benefits denied for employee whose visa limited his employment to one employer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,39,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-small-business-forum","7":"category-payroll-taxes","8":"category-staffing-agencies","9":"category-taxes","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ua-cpas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}