California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 1 - Employment Development Department › Subdivision 1 - Director of Employment Development › Division 1 - Unemployment and Disability Compensation › Part 1 - Unemployment Compensation › Chapter 5 - UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS › Article 2.4 - WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS › Section 1279.5-1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to the regulations in
							 this article and Unemployment Insurance Code section
							 1279.5.
(a) "Affected work unit" means the entire
						  work force or unit(s) within the total work force that are assigned by the work
						  sharing employer to participate in the work sharing program.
(b) "Application" means the work sharing plan
						  application submitted by an employer to the department.
(c) "Certification" means the work sharing
						  certification which the work sharing employer issues to the employee so that
						  the employee may file a claim for work sharing benefits.
(d) "Normal weekly wages" means the wages
						  earned in a week that the employee would usually earn from the work sharing
						  employer if there was no reduction in wages or hours due to work sharing, or
						  wages earned for 40 hours, whichever is less.
(e) "Normal weekly hours of work" are either
						  those hours an employee in the same position or job classification would have
						  worked for the work sharing employer, if there had been no reduction in hours
						  due to work sharing, or 40 hours, whichever is less.
(f) "Week" means the work sharing employer's
						  payroll week. If the work sharing employer does not pay wages on a weekly
						  basis, a "week" shall be a seven consecutive day period beginning at 12:01 a.m.
						  Sunday and ending at midnight the following Saturday.
(g) "Work sharing benefits" means the
						  unemployment insurance benefits payable under the provisions of Section
						  1279.5
						  of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
(h) "Work sharing employer" means the
						  employer participating in the work sharing program.
(i) "Work sharing plan" means all the
						  information submitted by the employer in the application to the department for
						  participation in the work sharing program. (Refer to Section
						  1279.5-2
						  of these regulations for the required information.)
(j) "Work sharing program" means the program
						  described in Section
						  1279.5 of the Unemployment
						  Insurance Code which provides employers with an alternative to layoffs and
						  their employees with the payment of reduced unemployment insurance
						  benefits.
(k) "First contact date"
						  means the date of the first contact between the department and the work sharing
						  employer with regard to an application to participate in the work sharing
						  program.
(l) "Regular employer"
						  means (for work sharing purposes) the employer responsible for the following:
(1) Payment of wages,
(2) Withholding and payment of tax
						  contributions,
(3) Determining the
						  individual's normal weekly hours of work,
(4) Determining the individual's normal
						  weekly wages,
(5) Reduction of the
						  individual's normal weekly hours of work, and
(6) Reduction of the individual's normal
						  weekly wages.