TITLE 34 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Section 8. Employment Security, 34-8-1 through 34-8-280.

ARTICLE 5 CONTRIBUTIONS AND PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF CONTRIBUTIONS

34-8-152. Standard rate.

1. The standard rate of contribution shall be 5.4 percent. The standard rate of contribution is the rate from which variations therefrom are computed as provided in Code Section 34-8-155.
2. No employer's rate shall be reduced below the rate for new employers as specified in Code Section 34-8-151 for any calendar year, except as provided in Code Section 34-8-155, unless and until such employer's account could have been chargeable with benefit payments throughout the 36 consecutive calendar months ending on the computation date for that calendar year.

(Code 1981, §34-8-152, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.)