New Jersey Statutes 43:21-20.6. Eligibility for short-time benefits
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 43:21-20.6
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter (R. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
- Division: means the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and any transaction or exercise of authority by the director of the division thereunder, or under this chapter (R. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
- Employer: means : (1) Any employing unit which in either the current or the preceding calendar year paid remuneration for employment in the amount of $1,000. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Wages: means remuneration paid by employers for employment. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
- Week: means for benefit years commencing on or after October 1, 1984, the calendar week ending at midnight Saturday, or as the division may by regulation prescribe. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2013, c.279)
b. The individual works for the employer at an affected unit less than the individual’s usual weekly hours of work, and the employer has reduced the individual’s weekly hours of work pursuant to a shared work program in effect during that week and approved by the division pursuant to section 2 of this act;
c. The percentage of the reduction of the individual’s work hours below the individual’s usual weekly hours of work is not less than 10% and not more than 60%, with a corresponding reduction of wages;
d. The individual would be eligible for unemployment benefits other than short-time benefits during the week, if the individual was entirely unemployed during that week and applied for unemployment benefits other than short-time benefits; and
e. During the week, the individual is able to work and is available for the individual’s usual weekly hours of work with the shared work employer or is participating in a training program approved by the division, including division-approved employer-sponsored training, division-approved training funded under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Pub.L.105-220 (29 U.S.C. § 2801 et seq.) or the Workforce Development Partnership program established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1992, c.43 (C. 34:15D-4), or any other training approved by the division pursuant to subsection (c) of R.S.43:21-4.
If the individual complies with the requirements of subsection e. of this section, the individual shall not be subject to any other requirement of the “unemployment compensation law,” R.S.43:21-1 et seq., to be available for work and actively seeking work.
L.2011, c.154, s.4; amended 2013, c.279, s.4.