Effective Date - January 1, 2009

704                 Suitable Employment

SNAP - 7 CFR 273.7

                        Consider employment to be suitable unless one or more of the following has occurred to make the employment unsuitable:

A.    The wage offered is less than the applicable federal minimum wage.

B.    The employment offered is on a piece-rate basis and the average hourly yield the employee can reasonably be expected to earn is less than the applicable federal minimum wage.

C.   The individual, as a condition of employment or continuing employment, is required to join, resign from or refrain from joining any legitimate labor organization.

D.   The work is at a site subject to a strike at the time of the offer unless the strike has been enjoined under Section 208 of the Labor Management Relations Act or Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act.

E.    The degree of risk to health and safety is unreasonable.

F.    The member is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment as documented by medical evidence or by reliable information from other sources.

G.   The distance from home to work exceeds two hours per day, not including the transportation of a child to and from a child care facility, or the distance prohibits walking and neither public nor private transportation is available.

H.   Working hours or the nature of employment interferes with religious beliefs, observances or convictions.