TITLE 72

WORKER’S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS — INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

CHAPTER 13

EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW

72-1311A.  COMPELLING PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. (1) "Compelling personal circumstances," for the purpose of section 72-1366(4), Idaho Code, means:

(a)  The serious illness, necessary treatment by a health care provider, death, or funeral of an immediate family member;

(b)  The wedding of the claimant or an immediate family member;

(c)  The birth of the claimant’s child;

(d)  Sincerely held religious beliefs that do not allow working on a certain day;

(e)  Travel not exceeding twenty-four (24) hours necessary to obtain essential goods and services not available in the claimant’s locality; or

(f)  Required service for jury duty or attendance at court proceedings or depositions pursuant to a lawfully issued subpoena.

(2)  For purposes of this section, "immediate family member" means a claimant’s spouse, child, foster child, parent, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, or the same relation by marriage.

History:

[72-1311A, added 2025, ch. 29, sec. 6, p. 108.]