(vi)__As an election official or election worker if the amount of remuneration received by the individual during the calendar year for services as an election official or election worker is less than $1,000;

Sec. 3. 26 MRSA §1043, sub-§17, ķA, as amended by PL 1991, c. 193, §2, is further amended to read:

A. An individual, including corporate officers, is considered "totally unemployed" in any week with respect to which wages are not payable to the individual and during which the individual does not perform services, except that remuneration payable or received as holiday pay is not considered wages for the purpose of this subsection and except that any amounts received from the Federal Government by members of the National Guard and organized reserve, including base pay and allowances, or any amounts received as a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer emergency medical services person, are not considered wages for the purpose of this subsection.

SUMMARY

This bill inserts a reference to the existing statutory provision that governs payment for services of a member of the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation in the laws governing leaves of absence. That provision requires the costs to be shared by the parties.

This bill provides that wages paid to election officials and election workers do not have to be reported for purposes of the laws governing unemployment compensation until they exceed $1,000.

This bill also removes the exemption for wages earned as a volunteer emergency medical services worker in the definition of total and partial unemployment in the laws governing unemployment compensation.