Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 235 - Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation › Section 31-235-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For purposes of sections 31-235-1 to
				31-235-23,
				inclusive, and sections
				31-236-1
				to
				31-236-57,
				inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the following
				definitions apply:
(a) "Administrator"
			 means the Labor Commissioner of the State of Connecticut, whose mailing address
			 is 200 Folly Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109, or the Labor
			 Commissioner's designated representative.
(b) "Base period" means an individual's
			 regular, alternate, or special base period as specified in section 31-230 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes.
(c) "Benefits" means unemployment
			 compensation payable to an individual with respect to such individual's
			 unemployment under Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(d) "Benefit year" means the period
			 commencing with the beginning of the week with respect to which an individual
			 has filed a valid initiating claim and continuing through the Saturday of the
			 fifty-first week following the week in which it commenced, provided no benefit
			 year shall end until after the end of the third complete calendar quarter, plus
			 the remainder of any uncompleted calendar week which began in such quarter,
			 following the calendar quarter in which it commenced.
(e) "Full-time work" means employment for the
			 number of hours which prevails for the industry or employment sector in which
			 the work is performed.
(f) "Job
			 attached" means (1) the claimant has a date of rehire or recall with the
			 claimant's most recent employer, (2) the work is covered employment pursuant to
			 Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes, and (3) the work offered is
			 full-time employment.
(g) "Labor
			 dispute" means any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or
			 concerning association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing,
			 maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment,
			 or concerning employment relations, or any other controversy arising out of
			 respective interests of employer and employee.
(h) "Major portion of the week" means three
			 or more of those days of the week during which the work for which an individual
			 is suited is customarily performed to a significant extent.
(i) "Prevailing wages, hours or conditions"
			 means those wages paid, or hours or conditions which exist for the largest
			 number of workers engaged in similar work in the area.
(j) "Public employment bureau" means the
			 Connecticut State Job Service, or where an individual is filing for benefits on
			 an interstate basis, the public employment bureau in the appropriate
			 jurisdiction.
(k) "Union attached"
			 means (1) the claimant is a member in good standing with the claimant's trade
			 union,
(2)
the claimant is on the union's out-of-work list and
			 (3) the union operates an exclusive hiring hall.
(l) "Week" means a calendar week commencing
			 at midnight on Sunday.
(m) "Wilful"
			 means intentional or deliberate or with reckless indifference for the probable
			 consequences of one's actions.