Terms Used In Florida Statutes > Chapter 443

• Able to work: means physically and mentally capable of performing the duties of the occupation in which work is being sought. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Agricultural labor: means any remunerated service performed:
  (a) On a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• American aircraft: means an aircraft registered under the laws of the United States. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• American employer: means :
  (a) An individual who is a resident of the United States. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• American vessel: means any vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Available for work: means actively seeking and being ready and willing to accept suitable work. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Base period: means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Benefit year: means , for an individual, the 1-year period beginning with the first day of the first week for which the individual first files a valid claim for benefits and, thereafter, the 1-year period beginning with the first day of the first week for which the individual next files a valid claim for benefits after the termination of his or her last preceding benefit year. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Benefits: means the money payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, for his or her unemployment. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Calendar quarter: means each period of 3 consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Casual labor: means labor that is occasional, incidental, or irregular, not exceeding 200 person-hours in total duration. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• client: means a party who has contracted with an employee leasing company to provide a worker, or workers, to perform services for the client. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Commission: means the Reemployment Assistance Appeals Commission. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Contributing employer: means an employer who is liable for contributions under this chapter. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Contribution: means a payment of payroll tax to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund which is required under this chapter to finance reemployment assistance benefits. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Crew leader: means an individual who:
  (a) Furnishes individuals to perform service in agricultural labor for another person. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• duration: means the period of time from the commencement to the completion of the particular job or project. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Earned income: means gross remuneration derived from work, professional service, or self-employment. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Educational institution: means an institution, except for an institution of higher education:
  (a) In which participants, trainees, or students are offered an organized course of study or training designed to transfer to them knowledge, skills, information, doctrines, attitudes, or abilities from, by, or under the guidance of, an instructor or teacher;
  (b) That is approved, licensed, or issued a permit to operate as a school by the Department of Education or other governmental agency that is authorized within the state to approve, license, or issue a permit for the operation of a school; and
  (c) That offers courses of study or training which are academic, technical, trade, or preparation for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Employee leasing company: means an employing unit that has a valid and active license under chapter 468 and that maintains the records required by…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Employer: means an employing unit subject to this chapter under…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Employing unit: means an individual or type of organization, including a partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign; the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor of any of the foregoing; or the legal representative of a deceased person, which has or had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this state. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Employment: means a service subject to this chapter under…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Fund: means the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund created under this chapter, into which all contributions and reimbursements required under this chapter are deposited and from which all benefits provided under this chapter are paid. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• High quarter: means the quarter in an individual's base period in which the individual has the greatest amount of wages paid, regardless of the number of employers paying wages in that quarter. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Hospital: means an institution that is licensed, certified, or approved by the Agency for Health Care Administration as a hospital. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Institution of higher education: means an educational institution that:
  (a) Admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of a certificate of graduation;
  (b) Is legally authorized in this state to provide a program of education beyond high school;
  (c) Provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's or higher degree, or provides a program that is acceptable for full credit toward a bachelor's or higher degree; a program of postgraduate or postdoctoral studies; or a program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation; and
  (d) Is a public or other nonprofit institution. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Insured work: means employment for employers. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Leave of absence: means a temporary break in service to an employer, for a specified period of time, during which the employing unit guarantees the same or a comparable position to the worker at the expiration of the leave. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Monetary determination: means a determination of whether and in what amount a claimant is eligible for benefits based on the claimant's employment during the base period of the claim. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Nonmonetary determination: means a determination of the claimant's eligibility for benefits based on an issue other than monetary entitlement and benefit overpayment. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• oath: includes affirmations. See N.Y. Education Law 661 - Eligibility requirements and conditions governing awards and loans
• One-stop career center: means a service site established and maintained as part of the one-stop delivery system under…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Pay period: means a period of 31 or fewer consecutive days for which a payment or remuneration is ordinarily made to the employee by the person employing him or her. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See N.Y. Education Law 661 - Eligibility requirements and conditions governing awards and loans
• political subdivision: include counties, cities, towns, villages, special tax school districts, special road and bridge districts, bridge districts, and all other districts in this state. See N.Y. Education Law 661 - Eligibility requirements and conditions governing awards and loans
• Public employer: means :
  (a) A state agency or political subdivision of the state;
  (b) An instrumentality that is wholly owned by one or more state agencies or political subdivisions of the state; or
  (c) An instrumentality that is wholly owned by one or more state agencies, political subdivisions, or instrumentalities of the state and one or more state agencies or political subdivisions of one or more other states. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Reasonable assurance: means a written or verbal agreement, an agreement between an employer and a worker understood through tradition within the trade or occupation, or an agreement defined in an employer's policy. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Reemployment assistance: means cash benefits payable to individuals with respect to their unemployment pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• registered mail: include certified mail with return receipt requested. See N.Y. Education Law 661 - Eligibility requirements and conditions governing awards and loans
• Reimbursement: means a payment of money to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund in lieu of a contribution which is required under this chapter to finance reemployment assistance benefits. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Reimbursing employer: means an employer who is liable for reimbursements in lieu of contributions under this chapter. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• service provider: means the state agency providing reemployment assistance tax collection services under contract with the Department of Economic Opportunity through an interagency agreement pursuant to…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Canada, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• State law: means the unemployment insurance law of any state, approved by the United States Secretary of Labor under…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Temporary layoff: means a job separation due to lack of work which does not exceed 8 consecutive weeks and which has a fixed or approximate return-to-work date. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• unemployed: means :
  (a) An individual is "totally unemployed" in any week during which he or she does not perform any services and for which earned income is not payable to him or her. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Wages: means remuneration subject to this chapter under…. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• Week: means a period of 7 consecutive days as defined in the rules of the Department of Economic Opportunity. See N.Y. Multiple Residence Law 251 - Height Limitation
• writing: includes handwriting, printing, typewriting, and all other methods and means of forming letters and characters upon paper, stone, wood, or other materials. See N.Y. Education Law 661 - Eligibility requirements and conditions governing awards and loans