39-51-2302. Disqualification for leaving work without good cause. (1) An individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he has left work without good cause attributable to his employment.
     (2) He may not be disqualified if the department finds that he left his employment because of personal illness or injury not associated with misconduct upon the advice of a licensed and practicing physician and, after recovering from his illness or injury when recovery is certified by a licensed and practicing physician, he returned to his employer and offered his service and his regular or comparable suitable work was not available, if so found by the department, provided he is otherwise eligible.
     (3) To requalify for benefits, an individual must perform services other than self-employment for which remuneration is received equal to or in excess of six times his weekly benefit amount subsequent to the week in which the act causing the disqualification occurred unless he has been in regular attendance at an educational institution accredited by the state of Montana for at least 3 consecutive months from the date of his enrollment.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 137, L. 1937; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 164, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 191, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 164, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 171, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 156, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 269, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 84, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 188, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 4, Ex. L. 1969; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 38, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 415, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 369, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 498, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 170, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 133, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 87-106(intro), (a); amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 688, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 349, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 371, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 30, Ch. 373, L. 1991.