Employer records
Businesses that hire workers have to keep payroll records for at least 3 years and let the state unemployment office look at them. Businesses with 50 or more workers must send in wage reports every 3 months using a computer system. All employers have to post notices telling workers about their unemployment benefit rights. If the state decides a business owes something related to unemployment, the business has 30 days to appeal that decision in writing, or the decision becomes final.
288.130. Employer s — form of report — — — when — extension of time period — , when. — 1. Each shall keep true and accurate and other related records, containing such information as the may by for a period of at least three years after the record was made. Such records shall be open to inspection and be subject to being copied by representatives of the division at any reasonable time and as often as may be necessary. Any authorized person engaged in administering this law may require from any employing unit any sworn or unsworn reports, with respect to individuals performing services for it, which are necessary for the effective of this law.
2. All employers with fifty or more workers shall report quarterly wage information due section 288.090 to the division in an electronic format prescribed by the division. However, for , the may an employer with fifty or more workers to report quarterly wage information on a paper form approved by the division.
3. Each employer shall post and maintain in places readily accessible to the employer's workers printed statements concerning benefit rights, for benefits and such other matters related to the administration of this law as the division may by regulation prescribe. Each employer shall supply to workers copies of any printed statements relating to claims for benefits when and as the division may by regulation prescribe. Such printed statements and other materials shall be supplied by the division without cost.
4. A shall make an after investigation but without with respect to any matter pertaining to the liability of an employing unit which does not involve a . The deputy shall promptly notify any interested employing units of each such determination and the reason for it. The division shall a hearing before an to any employing unit ing from any such ex parte determination provided an appeal is filed in writing within thirty days following the date of notification or the mailing of such determination to the 's last known address. In the absence of an appeal any such determination shall become final at the expiration of a thirty-day period. The deputy may, however, at any time within a year from the date of the deputy's determination, for , reconsider the determination and shall promptly notify all interested employing units of his amended determination and the reason for it.
5. The thirty-day period provided in 4 of this section may, for good cause, be extended.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1951 p. 564, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1485, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1368, A.L. 1998 S.B. 922, A.L. 2019 S.B. 90)
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