On June 17, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law the legislature’s latest modifications to Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law. The changes described below will take effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

Though presumably designed as a cost-cutting measure with regard to the commonwealth’s budget issues, the modifications may have some unexpected consequences for attorneys and their clients when negotiating severance packages, and lawyers who practice in this area of the law should expect some interesting, and probably confusing, issues to arise in the future.

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