§ 28-41-2 - Wages included for benefit purposes.
SECTION 28-41-2
§ 28-41-2 Wages included for benefitpurposes. – Notwithstanding any provisions of chapters 39 – 41 of this title to thecontrary, "wages" as used in the phrase "wages for employment from employers"means, with reference to the benefits provisions of chapters 39 – 41 ofthis title, only those wages which are paid subsequent to the date upon whichthe employing unit, by whom those wages were paid, has satisfied the conditionsof § 28-39-2 (12) with respect to becoming an employer subject to thosechapters. No individual shall be denied benefits under chapters 39 – 41 ofthis title because his or her employer continued to pay to that individual hisor her regular wages, or parts of them, while he or she was sick and unable toperform his or her regular or customary work or services. The amount of anypayments, whether or not under a plan or system, made to or on behalf of anemployee by his or her employer after the expiration of six (6) calendar monthsfollowing the last calendar month in which the employee performed actual bonafide personal services for that employer, shall not be deemed to be wages forthe purpose of being used as a basis for paying benefits under chapter 41 ofthis title.