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deemed earned on the day on which such time is lost. The term "remuneration" does not include (i) the voluntary payment by another, without deduction from the pay of an employee, of any tax or contribution now or hereafter imposed with respect to the remuneration of such employee, or (ii) any money payments received pursuant to any nongovernmental plan for unemployment insurance.

(k) Subject to the provisions of section 4 of this Act, a day of unemployment, with respect to any employee, means a calendar day on which he is able to work and is available for work and with respect to which (i) no remuneration is payable to him, and (ii) he has, in accordance with such regulations as the Board may prescribe, registered at an employment office: Provided, however, That with respect to a part-time worker a calendar day on which he is not normally employed shall not constitute a day of unemployment: And provided further, That, with respect to any employee whose normal work shift includes a part of each of two consecutive calendar days, the term "calendar day", as heretofore used in this subsection, shall mean such equivalent period of twenty-four hours as the Board may by regulation prescribe.

(1) The term "base year" means the year with respect to which an employee's compensation is used in determining his qualification for, and the amounts of, benefits; and, with respect to any employee, shall be the last completed calendar year before the beginning of his benefit year if his benefit year begins on or after July 1 of any calendar year, and the next to the last completed calendar year before the beginning of his benefit year if his benefit year begins before July 1 of any calendar year.

(m) The term "benefits" (except when used in the term "unemployment benefits") means the money payments payable to an employee as provided in this Act, with respect to his unemployment. (n) The term "benefit year", with respect to any employee, means the twelve-months period which begins with the first day with respect to which benefits are first payable to him, and thereafter the twelvemonths period which begins with the first day with respect to which benefits are next payable to him after the termination of his last preceding benefit year.

(0) The term "employment office" means a free employment office operated by the Board, or designated as such by the Board pursuant to section 12 (i) of this Act.

(p) The term "account" means the railroad unemployment insurance account established pursuant to section 10 of this Act in the unemployment trust fund.

(q) The term "fund" means the railroad unemployment insurance administration fund, established pursuant to section 11 of this Act. (r) The term "Board" means the Railroad Retirement Board. (s) The term "United States", when used in a geographical sense, means the States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. (t) The term "State" means any of the States, Alaska, Hawaii, or the District of Columbia.

(u) Any reference in this Act to any other Act of Congress, including such reference in amendments to other Acts, includes a reference to such other Act as amended from time to time.

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BENEFITS

SEC. 2. (a) Except as may otherwise be prescribed for part-time workers pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, a qualified employee shall be paid benefits for each day of unemployment in excess of seven during any half-month which begins after June 30,

1939.

The benefits payable to any such employee for each such day of unemployment shall be the amount appearing in the following table in column II on the line on which, in column I, appears the compensation-range containing the total amount of compensation payable to him with respect to employment in his base year:

Column I

Total compensation
$150 to $199.99___
$200 to $474.99_.

$475 to $749.99_

$750 to $1,024.99.

Column II Daily benefit amount

$1.75

2.00

2.25

2.50

2.75

$1,025 to $1,299.99_

$1,300 and over---

3.00

(b) The benefits provided for in this section shall be paid to an employee at such reasonable intervals as the Board may prescribe. (c) The maximum benefits payable to an employee for unemployment within his benefit year shall not exceed eighty times the daily benefits payable to him.

(d) The Board shall prescribe regulations for determining the amount of daily benefits, and the maximum benefits during any benefit year, to be payable to part-time workers and for determining the days of unemployment with respect to which such benefits shall be payable. Such regulations shall provide benefits reasonably proportionate to the benefits hereinbefore provided for other employees, with due regard to the compensation payable per month to a parttime worker with respect to his part-time employment, as compared with the compensation per month prevailing in the same locality for employees employed by employers for the full-time hours or days per month prevailing in the locality for the same class of service. Such regulations shall provide also for the payment of such benefits to a part-time worker only with respect to his days of unemployment in excess of a number to be prescribed with due regard to the proportion of full time which he regularly works.

(e) The provisions of section 9 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 shall be applicable to benefits under this Act to the same extent and in the same manner as therein provided with respect to annuities, death benefits, and pensions.

(f) No benefits shall be assignable or be subject to any tax or to garnishment, attachment, or other legal process under any circumstances whatsoever, nor shall the payment thereof be anticipated.

(g) If (i) benefits are paid to any employee with respect to any period, and there is later determined to be payable to such employee any remuneration with respect to such period, and (ii) the person or company from whom such remuneration is payable has, before payment thereof, notice of the payment of such benefits, the remuneration so payable shall not be reduced by reason of such benefits but the

remuneration so payable, to the extent of such benefits, shall be held to be a special fund in trust for the Board. The amount of such special fund shall be paid to the Board and in the collection thereof the Board shall have the same authority, and the same penalties shall apply, as are provided in section 8 of this Act with respect to contributions. The proceeds of such special fund shall be credited to the account. The amount of such benefits, to the extent that it is represented in such a special fund which has been collected by the Board, shall be disregarded for the purposes of subsections (a) and (c) of this section.

QUALIFYING CONDITIONS

SEC. 3. An employee shall be qualified to receive benefits in accordance with section 2 of this Act only if the Board finds that—

(a) There was payable to him compensation of not less than $150 with respect to employment during his base year; and

(b) Within six months prior to his benefit year and after June 15, 1939, he has had a waiting period of at least fifteen consecutive days of unemployment, or two half-months during each of which he had at least eight days of unemployment. No such period shall be counted for the purposes of this subsection if unemployment benefits have been paid with respect to the whole or any part thereof under this Act, any other Act of Congress, or under any other unemploymentcompensation law.

DISQUALIFYING CONDITIONS

SEC. 4 (a) There shall not be considered as a day of unemployment, with respect to any employee

(1) any of the thirty days beginning with the day with respect to which the Board finds that he left work voluntarily without good cause;

(ii) any of the forty-five days beginning with the day with respect to which the Board finds that he was discharged or suspended for misconduct related to his work;

(iii) any of the thirty days beginning with the day with respect to which the Board finds that he failed, without good cause, to accept suitable work available on such day and offered to him;

(iv) any of the fifteen days beginning with the day with respect to which the Board finds that he was, with proper notice, called upon to report for suitable work available on such day and was able to work but was not available;

(v) subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, any day with respect to which the Board finds that his unemployment was due to a stoppage of work because of a strike in the establishment, premises, or enterprise at which he was last employed, and the Board finds that such strike was commenced in violation of the provisions of the Railway Labor Act or in violation of the established rules and practices of a bona fide labor organization of which he was a member;

(vi) any of the seventy-five days beginning with the first day of any half-month with respect to which the Board finds that he knowingly made or aided in making or caused to be made any false or fraudulent statement or claim for the purpose of causing benefits to be paid;

(vii) any day in any period with respect to which the Board finds that he is receiving, has received, or has a right to receive compensation or other wages in lieu of notice, annuity payments, or pensions under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 or the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, or old-age benefits under title II of the Social Security Act or payments for similar purposes under any other Act of Congress; or he is receiving or has received unemployment benefits under an unemployment compensation law of any State or of the United States other than this Act;

(viii) any day in any half-month with respect to which the Board finds that he performed at least 25 per centum of the maximum employment allowable to him for a calendar month pursuant to a contract of employment providing for the determination of his compensation, wholly or partially, on a mileage basis;

(ix) any day in any calendar month with respect to which the Board finds that he had prior to such day performed at least 50 per centum of the maximum employment allowable to him during such calendar month pursuant to a contract of employment providing for the determination of his compensation, wholly or partially, on a mileage basis.

(b) The disqualification provided in section 4 (a) (v) of this Act shall not apply if the Board finds that—

(i) the employee is not participating in or financing or directly interested in the strike which causes the stoppage of work: Provided, That payment of regular union dues shall not be construed to constitute financing a strike or direct interest in a strike within the meaning of this and the following paragraphs; and

(ii) he does not belong to a grade or class of workers of which, immediately before the commencement of the stoppage, there were members employed in the establishment, premises, or enterprise at which the stoppage occurs, any of whom are participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute: Provided, That if separate types of work are commonly conducted in separate departments of a single enterprise, each such department shall, for the purposes of this subsection, be deemed to be a separate establishment, enterprise, or other premises. (c) No work shall be deemed suitable for the purposes of section. 4 (a) (iii) or 4 (a) (iv) of this Act, and benefits shall not be denied under this Act to any otherwise qualified employee for refusing to accept work if

(i) the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute;

(ii) the remuneration, hours, or other conditions of work offered are substantially less favorable to the employee than those prevailing for similar work in the locality, or the rate of remuneration is less than the union wage rate, if any, for similar work in the locality;

(iii) as a condition of being employed he would be required to join a company union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization;

(iv) acceptance of the work would require him to engage in activities in violation of law or which, by reason of their being in violation of reasonable requirements of the constitution, bylaws, or similar regulations of a bona fide labor organization of which he is a member, would subject him to expulsion from such labor organization; or

(v) acceptance of the work would subject him to loss of substantial seniority rights under any collective bargaining agreement between a railway labor organization, organized in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, and any other employer.

(d) In determining, within the limitations of section 4 (c) of this Act, whether or not any work is suitable for an employee for the purposes of sections 4 (a) (iii) and 4 (a) (iv) of this Act, the Board shall consider, in addition to such other factors as it deems relevant, (i) the current practices recognized by management and labor with respect to such work; (ii) the degree of risk involved to such employee's health, safety, and morals; (iii) his physical fitness and prior training; (iv) his experience and prior earnings; (v) his length of unemployment and prospects for securing work in his customary occupation; and (vi) the distance of the available work from his residence and from his most recent work.

(e) For the purposes of section 4 (a) (i) of this Act, no voluntary leaving of work shall be deemed to have been without good cause if the Board finds that such work would not have been suitable for the purposes of sections 4 (a) (iii) and 4 (a) (iv) of this Act.

CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS

SEC. 5. (a) Claims for benefits and appeals from determinations with respect thereto shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the Board shall prescribe. Each employer shall post and maintain, in places readily accessible to employees in his service, such printed statements concerning such regulations as the Board supplies to him for such purpose, and shall keep available to his employees copies of such printed statements. Such printed statements shall be supplied by the Board to each employer without cost to him.

(b) The Board is authorized and directed to make findings of fact with respect to any claim for benefits and to make decisions as to the right of any claimant to benefits. The Board is further authorized to hold such hearings, to conduct such investigations and other proceedings, and to establish, by regulations or otherwise, such procedures as it may deem necessary or proper for the determination of a right to benefits.

(c) Each claimant whose claim for benefits has been denied upon an initial determination with respect thereto, shall be granted an opportunity for a fair hearing thereon before a district board. The Board shall establish such district boards as it may deem necessary to provide for such hearings. Each district board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be a representative of the Board, who shall serve as chairman, one of whom shall be appointed by the Board from recommendations made by representatives of employees, and one of whom shall be appointed by the Board from recommenda

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