Oregon Statutes 657.357 – Apprenticeship program participants eligible for benefits; conditions
Notwithstanding ORS § 657.335 to 657.360 or the provisions of this chapter relating to availability for work, actively seeking work or refusal to accept suitable work, an unemployed individual participating in an apprenticeship program who is otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.357
- Benefit year: means a period of 52 consecutive weeks commencing with the first week with respect to which an individual files an initial valid claim for benefits, and thereafter the 52 consecutive weeks period beginning with the first week with respect to which the individual next files an initial valid claim after the termination of the individual's last preceding benefit year except that the benefit year shall be 53 weeks if the filing of an initial valid claim would result in overlapping any quarter of the base year of a previously filed initial valid claim. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
- Benefits: means the money allowances payable to unemployed persons under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
- employment: includes service that is:
(a) Subject to the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; or
(b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. See Oregon Statutes 657.030
- Week: means any period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight, as the director may prescribe by rule. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
(1) Is not ineligible for the benefits or waiting week credit solely by reason of attending a program of related instruction established in accordance with ORS § 660.157 if the individual’s attendance:
(a) Does not exceed 10 weeks during the benefit year of the individual; and
(b) Is required as a condition of the individual’s continued employment; and
(2) Shall be considered to be in a program of instruction with the approval of the Director of the Employment Department if the individual:
(a) Provides the director with a copy of the individual’s effective apprenticeship agreement approved in accordance with the requirements of ORS § 660.002 to 660.210; and
(b) Establishes to the satisfaction of the director that the training is scheduled by a work-related entity and not by the individual claiming the benefits. [1989 c.818 § 3; 1999 c.124 § 1; 2016 c.18 § 1]