Cal. UIC § 1252.1
This is the official text of Cal. UIC § 1252.1, part of California’s Unemployment Insurance Code — governs unemployment and disability insurance benefits.
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Official statutory text
With respect to individuals hired as commercial fishermen a “totally unemployed individual” means an individual who, during a particular week, while still attached to his employer from the standpoint that there did not occur any severance of the employer-employee relationship, earned no wages and performed no services because his employer’s boat was tied up for one or more of the following reasons:
(a) Inclement weather.
(b) Absence of fish in fishable waters.
(c) Lack of orders for fish from buyers.
(d) Boat is laid up for repairs.
(a) Inclement weather.
(b) Absence of fish in fishable waters.
(c) Lack of orders for fish from buyers.
(d) Boat is laid up for repairs.
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