Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 250 - Personal Data › Requirements and Administrative Procedures for a Voluntary Shared Work Unemployment Compensation Pilot Program › Section 31-250-8 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For purposes of Sections 31-250-8 to
				  31-250-12,
				  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
				Administrator's designee.
(b)
				"Affected unit" means a specific department, shift or other unit of two or more
				employees that is designated by an employer to participate in a shared work
				plan.
(c) "Fringe benefits" means
				health insurance, retirement benefits received under a pension plan, paid
				vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave and any other employee benefit that is
				provided by an employer.
(d)
				"Normal weekly hours of work" means the usual hours of work for full-time or
				part-time employees in the affected unit when that unit is operating on its
				regular basis, not to exceed forty (40) hours and not including hours of
				overtime work.
(e) "Participating
				employee" means an employee who works a reduced number of hours under a shared
				work plan.
(f) "Participating
				employer" means an employer who has a shared work plan in effect.
(g) "Seasonal" means an employer who has a
				work base that is attached or dependent upon a particular time of year on an
				annual basis.
(h) "Shared work
				benefit" means an unemployment compensation benefit that is payable by the
				Administrator to an individual in an affected unit because the individual works
				a reduced number of hours under an approved shared work plan, as distinguished
				from the unemployment benefits otherwise payable under the unemployment
				compensation provisions of Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General
				Statutes.
(i) "Shared work plan"
				means a plan submitted by an employer, for approval by the Administrator, under
				which the employer requests the payment of short-time compensation to workers
				in an affected unit of the employer to avert layoffs. "Shared work plan"
				includes a short-time compensation plan.
(j) "Shared work unemployment compensation
				program" means a program designed to reduce unemployment and stabilize the work
				force by allowing certain employees to collect unemployment compensation
				benefits if the employees share the work remaining after a reduction in the
				total number of hours of work and a corresponding reduction in wages.
(k) "Unemployment compensation" means any
				unemployment benefits administered by the Administrator under Chapter 567 of
				the Connecticut General Statutes or pursuant to federal law, under agreement
				with the U.S. Department of Labor, including, but not limited to Extended
				Benefits, Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE), Unemployment
				Compensation for Ex-Servicemen (UCX), Trade Readjustment Allowances (TRA),
				Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) and Emergency Unemployment Compensation
				(EUC).