23-761. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. " Affected group" means two or more employees designated by the employer to participate in a shared work plan.

2. " Approved shared work plan" or " approved plan" means an employer's shared work plan which meets the requirements of section 23-762 and which the department approves in writing.

3. " Normal weekly hours of work" means the number of hours in a week that the employee normally would work for the shared work employer or forty hours, whichever is less.

4. " Shared work benefits" means benefits, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 United States Code, chapter 85, payable to an individual under this article for weeks of reduced work under an approved shared work plan.

5. " Shared work employer" means an employer with a shared work plan in effect. An individual who or an employing unit which succeeds to or acquires, pursuant to section 23-733, an organization, trade or business with a shared work plan in effect automatically becomes a shared work employer and adopts such plan, if such individual or employing unit certifies to shared work benefits under the previously approved plan.

6. " Shared work plan" or " plan" means an employer's voluntary written plan for reducing unemployment under which a specified group of employees shares the work remaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced.