Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 21 > Chapter 17 > Subchapter 3 - Short-Time Compensation Program

• Affected unit: means a specific plan, department, shift, or other definable unit consisting of not less than five employees to which an approved short-time compensation plan applies. See
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Labor established by this chapter, or his or her authorized representative. See
• compensation: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to his or her unemployment. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contributions: means the money payments to the State Unemployment Compensation Fund required by this chapter. See
• Dealer: means any person who engages in whole or in part in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging new and unused vessels, snowmobiles, or all-terrain vehicles, or used vessels, snowmobiles, or all-terrain vehicles, or any combination, either outright or on conditional sale, bailment, lease, chattel mortgage, or otherwise, and who has an established place of business for sale, trade, and display of vessels, snowmobiles, or all-terrain vehicles. See
• Defined benefit plan: means a plan described in 26 U. See
• Defined contribution plan: means a plan described in 26 U. See
• Employer: includes :

• employment: shall include an individual's entire service, performed within, or both within and without, this State if the service is localized in this State. See
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Fringe benefits: means benefits, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid vacations and holidays, sick leave, and similar benefits that are incidents of employment. See
• Fund: means the Unemployment Compensation Fund established by this chapter, to which all contributions required and from which all benefits provided under this chapter shall be paid. See
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lienholder: means a person holding a security interest in a vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle. See
• Manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing new and unused vessels, snowmobiles, or all-terrain vehicles for the purpose of sale or trade. See
• Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See
• Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having property in or title to a vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle. See
• Person: includes any natural person, corporation, association, co-partnership, company, firm, or other aggregation of individuals. See
• Security agreement: means a written agreement that reserves or creates a security interest. See
• Security interest: means an interest in a vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle reserved or created by agreement and that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See
• Short-time compensation plan: means a plan of an employer under which there is a reduction in the number of hours worked by employees of an affected unit rather than layoffs. See
• Snowmobile: means a self-propelled vehicle intended for off-road travel primarily on snow, having a curb weight of not more than 453. See
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See
• State: means the states of the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and after December 31, 1977, the Virgin Islands. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• STC: means the unemployment benefits payable to employees in an affected unit under an approved short-time compensation plan as distinguished from the unemployment benefits otherwise payable under the conventional unemployment compensation provisions of this chapter. See
• Unemployment compensation: means the unemployment benefits payable under this chapter other than short-time compensation and includes any amounts payable pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for compensation, assistance, or allowances with respect to unemployment. See
• Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle. See
• Usual weekly hours of work: means the normal hours of work for full-time or part-time employees in the affected unit when that unit is operating on its regular basis not to exceed 40 hours and not including hours of overtime work. See
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft capable of being used as a means of transportation on water that is equipped with machinery capable of propelling the watercraft, whether or not such machinery is the principal source of propulsion, but shall not include a watercraft that has a valid marine document issued by U. See
• wages: as used in this chapter shall not include:

• Week: means such period or periods of seven consecutive days, as the Board may by regulation prescribe. See