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.
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