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Unemployment Compensation

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

unemployment compensation


: compensation paid at regular intervals (as by a state agency) to an unemployed worker and esp. one who has been laid off called also unemployment benefit NOTE: Unemployment compensation is usually a fixed percentage of the former wages of an unemployed worker.




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