Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 11a - Dislocation Allowance and Reemployment Assistance Program › General › Section 31-11a-2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) "Administrator" means the Labor
				Commissioner or any duly authorized representative.
(b) "Adversely affected employment" means
				employment, the loss of which has been caused by or is directly related to
				sections 22a-77 through 22a-79 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(c) "Amount of unemployment compensation"
				means an individual's total unemployment rate, as defined in section
				31-231a,
				and includes any dependency allowances, as defined in section
				31-234 of
				the Connecticut General Statutes.
(d) "Average weekly earnings" means
				one-thirteenth of an individual's high quarter gross wages. The high quarter is
				the quarter in which the individual's wages were highest among the four quarter
				base period used in determining the individual's amount of unemployment
				compensation.
(e) "Average weekly
				net earnings" means one thirteenth of an individual's net earnings during the
				high quarter, which is utilized in determining the individual's amount of
				unemployment compensation.
(f)
				"Base period" means those quarters of earnings used in determining an
				individual's total unemployment benefit rate, as defined in section
				31-230
				of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(g) "Benefit period" means a two-year period
				commencing with an individual's date of loss of employment because of sections
				22a-77 through 22a-79 of the Connecticut General Statutes, or January 1, 1980,
				whichever is later.
(h) "Date of
				separation" means the date on which the individual was laid off or otherwise
				separated from employment, so as to make the individual a dislocated
				employee.
(i) "Dislocated employee"
				means any person who suffers loss of employment directly related to, or caused
				by, the provisions of sections 22a-77 through 22a-79 of the Connecticut General
				Statutes.
(j) "Dislocation
				allowance" means a weekly allowance payable to a dislocated employee under
				sections
				31-11a-3
				through
				31-11a-8 of
				these regulations.
(k) "Employer"
				means any individual or type of organization subject to the provisions of
				Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(l) "Employment" means any service performed
				legally for an employer by an individual for wages.
(m) "Net earnings" means gross wages less
				reductions for federal withholding tax and the FICA tax.
(n) "Reemployment assistance" means
				retraining and relocation allowances, employment assistance, and educational
				training programs.
(o) "Trainee"
				means a dislocated employee undergoing a planned and systematic sequence of
				instruction to which the individual is referred under sections
				31-11a-9
				through
				31-11a-13
				of these regulations.
(p)
				"Unemployment Compensation" means cash benefits payable to an individual with
				respect to an individual's unemployment under Chapter 567 of General
				Statutes.
(q) "Wages" means "total
				wages" as defined in section
				31-222(b)
				(1) of the Connecticut General
				Statutes.
(r) "Week" means a week
				as defined under section
				31-222-13
				of the Connecticut Unemployment Compensation Regulations.