Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 50 > Chapter 7 > Part 9 - Shared Work Benefits

• Affected group: means two (2) or more employees designated by an employer to participate in a shared work plan. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• Approved 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, which plan meets the requirements of §. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• Computation date: means December 31 of each calendar year with respect to rates of premiums applicable for the twelve-month period beginning with the following July 1. See Tennessee Code 50-7-403
• 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.
• Fringe benefits: includes advantages, such as health insurance for hospital, medical, dental, and other services. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Normal weekly hours of work: means the normal hours of work for full-time and permanent part-time employees in the affected group when their employing unit is operating on its normal, full-time basis, not to exceed forty (40) hours and not including overtime. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Shared work benefits: means the unemployment compensation benefits payable to employees in an affected group under an approved plan as distinguished from the unemployment benefits otherwise payable under other parts of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• Shared work employer: means :
  (A) An employer with a shared work plan in effect. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Subgroup: means a group of employees that constitutes at least ten percent (10%) of the employees in an affected group. See Tennessee Code 50-7-901
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105