Arizona Laws 23-763. Shared work benefits; eligibility; requirements
A. An individual is eligible to receive shared work benefits with respect to any week only if, in addition to meeting the requirements of article 6 of this chapter as modified by subsection E of this section, the department finds that during the week:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 23-763
- Affected group: means two or more employees designated by the employer to participate in a shared work plan. See Arizona Laws 23-761
- approved plan: means an employer's shared work plan which meets the requirements of section 23-762 and which the department approves in writing. See Arizona Laws 23-761
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- 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. See Arizona Laws 23-761
- 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. See Arizona Laws 23-761
- 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. See Arizona Laws 23-761
1. The individual is employed as a member of an affected group in an approved plan that was approved before the week and is in effect for the week.
2. The individual’s normal weekly hours of work were reduced at least ten per cent but not more than forty per cent.
3. The individual met the requirements of section 23-771, subsection A, paragraphs 3 and 4.
B. Eligible individuals may participate in training to enhance job skills, including employer sponsored training or worker training funded under the workforce investment act of 1998, if the training is approved by the department.
C. The department shall not pay an individual shared work benefits for more than twenty-six weeks in a benefit year, except that this limitation does not apply to a week if for the period consisting of the week and the immediately preceding twelve weeks the rate, not seasonally adjusted, of insured unemployment in this state is equal to or greater than four per cent.
D. The total amount of regular benefits and shared work benefits that the department pays to an individual for weeks in the individual’s benefit year shall not exceed the total for the benefit year as provided in section 23-780.
E. Notwithstanding section 23-621 or any other provision of this chapter, for purposes of this article an individual is unemployed in any week for which compensation is payable to the individual, as an employee in an affected group, for less than the individual’s normal weekly hours of work in accordance with an approved plan in effect for the week.