(e) (I) Benefit payments will be charged against the experience rating accounts of the base period employers in inverse chronological order. Benefit payments will be charged against the experience rating accounts of the base period employers in inverse chronological order.Benefits shall not be denied to any individual by reason of cancellation of wage credits or total reduction of his benefit rights for any cause other than discharge for gross misconduct connected with his work, fraud in connection with a claim for benefits, or receipt of disqualifying income.“Gross misconduct” means conduct evincing such willful or wanton disregard of an employer's interests or negligence or harm of such a degree or recurrence as to manifest culpability or wrongful intent, or assault or threatened assault upon supervisors, coworkers, or others at the work site. The gross misconduct of an individual causing his discharge from employment shall result in a disqualification of twenty-six weeks.If a disqualification is imposed on the most recent separation, a ten-week deferral of benefits shall be imposed. Those job separations that are considered shall result in a full award or a disqualification. An additional claim filed during an existing benefit year because of a recurrence of unemployment shall require the claimant to report all job separations subsequent to the effective date of the initial claim which may be considered by the division.If a disqualification was previously imposed, then the employee must work ten consecutive workdays for the same employer before a full award may be granted on the most recent separation. Benefits previously reduced due to a disqualification shall become available if a full award is granted on the most recent separation.Benefits remaining from a previous full award shall be reduced if a disqualification is granted on the most recent separation from that employer.In the event a claimant has more than one separation from the same adjudicable employer, the most recent separation shall be controlling as to the determination of eligibility for benefits attributable to that employer. (a) (I)The most recent separation and all separations from base period employers, excluding those defined in subparagraph (II) of paragraph (e) of this subsection (3), shall be considered. The most recent separation and all separations from base period employers, excluding those defined in subparagraph (II) of paragraph (e) of this subsection (3), shall be considered.Benefits payable under the provisions of this section shall be awarded, subject to other applicable provisions of articles 70 to 82 of this title. A full award of benefits shall be the total amount of benefits computed under sections 8-73-102 and 8-73-104.In the granting of benefit awards, it is the intent of the general assembly that the division at all times be guided by the principle that unemployment insurance is for the benefit of persons unemployed through no fault of their own and that each eligible individual who is unemployed through no fault of his own shall be entitled to receive a full award of benefits and that every person has the right to leave any job for any reason, but that the circumstances of his separation shall be considered in determining the amount of benefits he may receive, and that certain acts of individuals are the direct and proximate cause of their unemployment, and such acts may result in such individuals receiving a disqualification.
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