In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, the department shall consider the degree of risk involved to the individual's health, safety, and morals, the individual's physical fitness and prior training, the individual's experience and prior earnings, the individual's length of unemployment and prospects for securing local work in the individual's customary occupation, and the distance of the available work from the individual's residence.
S.D. Codified Laws § 61-6-17
Factors considered in determining suitability of offered employment
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case In Re the Appeal From the Final Decision of the South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division, for Fickbohm (1982)
Most recently applied in Appeal of Easton v. Hanson School District 30-1 (April 2013)
Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3, § 5; SDC 1939, § 17.0830 (3) (a); SL 1939, ch 89; SL 1943, ch 84; SL 1955, ch 62; SL 2008, ch 277, § 125; SDCL § 61-6-16; SL 2012, ch 252, § 59.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.