Notice of Meeting

Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council

Council Members: Please bring your calendars to schedule future meetings.

Council Web Site: http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/uibola/uiac

1. Opening Remarks -- Greg Frigo

Potential Action Items

2. Representative Debi Towns – Proposal to allow UI benefits to college students.
3. Representative Don Pridemore - Proposal to require employer to notify new employee not covered by the UI law of ineligibility for UI benefits.
4. April 28, 2005 Minutes (Blue)
5. Department Law Change Proposal D05-27: Harmonize missed work benefit eligibility under certain leave and suspension circumstances. (First presented March 31, 2005) (Pink)
6. Department Law Change Proposal D05-28: Repeal food processing exclusion. (First presented April 28, 2005) (White)
7. Department Law Change Proposal D05-33 Changes to employer fault definition to deal with failure to provide necessary information and create standard for terminating agent status. (First presented April 28, 2005) (Yellow)
8. Department Law Change Proposal D05-35: Collective bad debt liability assessment for non-profit reimbursement employers. (First presented February 18, 2005) (Gray)
9. Department Law Change Proposal D05-38: Amend “quit to take” provisions in the UI law. (First presented April 28, 2005) (Pink)
10. Department Law Change Proposal D05-41: Increase the levy fee from $5 to $15 and clarify that the levy fee is an addition to the unpaid debt. (First presented December 6, 2004 and modified April 28, 2005) (Blue)
11. Department Law Change Proposal D05-42: Amend definition of PEO to prevent an employer from setting up a PEO solely for its own workforce. (Green)
12. Department Law Change Proposal D05-60: Expand employer electronic reporting. (First presented February 18, 2005) Revised proposal will be distributed at meeting.
13. Department Law Change Proposal D05-63: Create new provision to make COED reports admissible evidence without expert certification. (Handout at meeting)
14. Department Rule Change Proposal: DWD 129: Amend to clarify weeks of backdating to be allowed. (Buff)
15. Labor and Management Law Change Proposals
16. Future Agendas Discussion
17. Caucus

Informational Items

18. UI trust fund integrity report
19. Letters to the Council (White) - Tom Smith
20. UI Treasurer's Financial Statements (Yellow) Handout

• The Council may not address all agenda items or follow the agenda order.
• The Council may take up action items at a time other than that listed.
• The Council may discuss other items, including those on any attached lists.
  
• The labor members and/or the management members of the Council may go into closed session at any time during the meeting to deliberate the action and/or discussion items, pursuant to sec. 19.85(1)(ee), Stats.

This location is handicap accessible. If you have other special needs (such as an interpreter or written materials in large print), please contact Robin Gallagher, Phone: (608) 267-1405, Unemployment Insurance Division, Bureau of Legal Affairs, P.O. Box 8942, Madison, WI 53708. Hearing and speech impaired callers may reach us at the above phone number through WI TRS (or TDD/Voice Relay 1-800-947-3529.)