(a) Benefits or waiting-week credit for any week may not be denied an otherwise eligible individual because the individual is attending a vocational training or retraining course with the approval of the director of the employment security division or because, while attending the course, the individual is not available for work or refuses an offer of work.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 23.20.382

  • benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
  • employment: includes services described in this subparagraph and (A) of this paragraph only if
    (i) the contract of service contemplates that substantially all of the services are to be performed personally by the individual. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.525
  • vocational training or retraining course: means a course of vocational or technical training or retraining in schools or classes, including field or laboratory work and related remedial or academic instruction, which is conducted as a program designed to prepare individuals for employment in trades, skills, or crafts. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
  • week: means the period of seven consecutive days which the department may by regulations prescribe. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
(b) An otherwise eligible individual may not be denied benefits or waiting-week credit for any week because the individual is in training approved under 19 U.S.C. § 2296(a)(1) (sec. 236(a)(1), Trade Act of 1974), if

(1) while attending the training, the individual is not available for work, fails to seek work, or refuses work; or
(2) the individual left work that was not suitable employment to enter training.
(c) In (b)(2) of this section, “suitable employment” means work that

(1) pays at least 80 percent of the individual’s average weekly wage, as determined for the purposes of the Trade Act of 1974; and
(2) is at least equal in skill level to the individual’s past adversely affected employment, as defined for purposes of the Trade Act of 1974.
(d) An otherwise eligible individual may not be denied benefits or waiting-week credit for any week because the individual is in any training approved under P.L. 105-220 (Workforce Investment Act of 1998) and, while attending the training, is not available for work, fails to seek work, or refuses work.
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