Your job with this employer is covered by the Employment Security Law. You may be able to establish a claim for Unemployment Insurance if you become TOTALLY or PARTIALLY unemployed and comply with all requirements.

IMPORTANT: YOU MAY FILE A CLAIM FOR BENEFITS AT ANY OFFICE OF THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR LISTED BELOW. PLEASE BRING YOUR SEPARATION NOTICE, IF ONE WAS FURNISHED BY YOUR EMPLOYER.

The Employment Security Law says that for each week that you claim insurance for TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT.

YOU MUST: Register for employment services with Georgia Department of Labor

BE: UNEMPLOYED, ABLE to work, AVAILABLE for work, ACTIVELY
SEEKING WORK, and be willing to immediately accept suitable work.

YOU MUST: Report all earnings each week. Report any job refusal.

NOTICE
No amount of money is deducted from your wages to pay for the unemployment insurance tax. Georgia employers pay this tax into a trust fund.

OFFICES WHERE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CLAIMS MAY BE FILED

ALBANY
AMERICUS
ATHENS
AUGUSTA
BAINBRIDGE
BLAIRSVILLE
BLUE RIDGE
BRUNSWICK
CAIRO
CAMILLA
CARROLLTON
CARTERSVILLE
CEDARTOWN
CLAYTON COUNTY
COBB/CHEROKEE
COLUMBUS
CORDELE
COVINGTON
DALTON
DEKALB COUNTY
DOUGLAS
DUBLIN
EASTMAN
ELBERTON
GAINESVILLE
GRIFFIN
GWINNETT COUNTY
HABERSHAM
HINESVILLE
HOUSTON COUNTY
JESUP
KINGS BAY
LAFAYETTE
LAGRANGE
MACON
MILLEDGEVILLE
MONROE
MOULTRIE
NEWNAN
NORTH METRO-ATLANTA
NORTHWEST GEORGIA -
(FT. OGLETHORPE)
ROME
SAVANNAH
SOUTH METRO-ATLANTA
STATESBORO
SYLVESTER
THOMASVILLE
THOMSON
TIFTON
TOCCOA
VALDOSTA
VIDALIA
WAYCROSS

Georgia Department of Labor
Equal Opportunity Employer/Program • Auxiliary Aids & Services Are Available Upon Request To Individuals With Disabilities

I worked in an elementary school in Georgia? Should we have a poster for unemployment? We didn't. Should they be reported. I wouldn't have known anything about it if I hadn't worked in the office of another job that had employees file unemployment.

Perhaps, but not necessarily. If you work for a public school district, your employer is probably what is called a "reimbursable employer", which means that they only pay into the UI fund when benefits are paid out. You can call the state Dept. of Labor to confirm but, even if there is the requirement, all your employer will probably receive is a slap on the wrist, maybe a small fine, and will be instructed to post the required notice.

If they deserve a slap and a fine I hope they get it.

They are so required regardless of whether they are reimbursable (which they would be foolish not to be). However, failure to do so does not even get them the proverbial slap. See below:

CHAPTER 300-2-7 REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS 300-2-7

300-2-7-.15. Display of Posters For Information of Employees. (1) Employers shall post and maintain in places readily accessible to their employees all printed statements, posters, etc., released and required by the Commissioner of Labor or the Georgia Department of Labor pertaining to the rights of employees under the Employment Security Law. A packet of required posters may be obtained by contacting the nearest local office of the Georgia Department of Labor.

Yep, rjc, nothing I saw there mentioned anything about what happens to them if they don't. Actually, I'm not surprised.