Section 167:92 Suitable Employment.
The commissioner, in determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, shall consider the following:
I. The degree of risk involved to a participant's health, safety, and morals.
II. A participant's physical fitness.
III. A participant's prior training and experience.
IV. A participant's prospects for securing, in the local labor market area, work in his or her customary occupation.
V. The distance of the available work from a participant's residence, provided that such distance shall not be substantially greater than that distance to all those places to which others living in the same town or city travel for work which utilizes similar or related skills or services, and also to where a participant acquired previous annual earnings.
VI. A participant's prior earnings and length of unemployment. Prior earnings may be given more weight initially in the first 26 weeks of the job search program than their length of unemployment.
Source. 1995, 310:62, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.