AB 229

Currently, an employee who leaves or partially or totally loses his or her work

with an employer because of a strike or other bona fide labor dispute, other than a

lockout, is not eligible to receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits based on the

wages paid to the employee prior to the beginning of the dispute for any week in

which the dispute is in active progress in the establishment in which the employee

is or was employed.

This bill permits such an employee to receive UI benefits while a labor dispute

is in active progress if the employee is otherwise eligible to receive benefits and the

employee is not participating in the dispute and is not a member of the grade or class

of workers (usually a collective bargaining unit) of which, immediately before the

dispute, there were members employed with the employee's employer, any of whom

are participating in the dispute.