Questão jurídica principal
Whether the five-day suspension in unemployment benefit entitlement for insufficient job-search efforts before unemployment was lawful
Decisão extraída
Yes. The insured person had to begin intensive job seeking immediately after receiving notice of termination, and her lack of July 2016 applications constituted negligent breach of the duty to mitigate loss.
Fundamentação extraída
The duty under unemployment insurance law arises upon notice of termination, not only after registration or the first counselling meeting. The claimant could not rely on ignorance of the rule or on the fact that she had intensive searches later; each control period is assessed separately. Given the circumstances, the authority correctly treated the conduct as slight fault and imposed five days, which is within the permissible range and was already mitigated.