35A-4-102 - Public policy -- General welfare requires creation of unemployment reserves -- Employment offices.
35A-4-102. Public policy -- General welfare requires creation of unemploymentreserves -- Employment offices.
As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of thisstate is declared to be as follows: Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menaceto the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state. Unemployment is therefore a subjectof general interest and concern that requires appropriate action by the Legislature to prevent itsspread and to lighten its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon theunemployed worker and his family. The achievement of social security requires protectionagainst this greatest hazard of our economic life. This objective can be furthered by operatingfree public employment offices in affiliation with a nation-wide system of employment services,by devising appropriate methods for reducing the volume of unemployment and by the systematicaccumulation of funds during periods of employment from which benefits may be paid forperiods of unemployment, thus maintaining purchasing power and limiting the serious socialconsequences of unemployment. The Legislature, therefore, declares that in its consideredjudgment the public good, and the general welfare of the citizens of this state require theenactment of this measure, under the police power of the state, for the establishment andmaintenance of free public employment offices and for the compulsory setting aside ofunemployment reserves to be used for the benefit of unemployed persons.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 240, 1996 General Session