Sec 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.