Ohio Code 4141.50 – SharedWork Ohio definitions
(A) As used in this section and in sections 4141.51 to 4141.56 of the Revised Code:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4141.50
- Benefits: means money payments payable to an individual who has established benefit rights, as provided in this chapter, for loss of remuneration due to the individual's unemployment. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Employer: means the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, Indian tribes, and any individual or type of organization including any partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or the successor thereof, or the legal representative of a deceased person who subsequent to December 31, 1971, or in the case of political subdivisions or their instrumentalities, subsequent to December 31, 1973:
(a) Had in employment at least one individual, or in the case of a nonprofit organization, subsequent to December 31, 1973, had not less than four individuals in employment for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, in either the current or the preceding calendar year whether or not the same individual was in employment in each such day; or
(b) Except for a nonprofit organization, had paid for service in employment wages of fifteen hundred dollars or more in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year; or
(c) Had paid, subsequent to December 31, 1977, for employment in domestic service in a local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, cash remuneration of one thousand dollars or more in any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year, or had paid subsequent to December 31, 1977, for employment in domestic service in a private home cash remuneration of one thousand dollars in any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year:
(i) For the purposes of divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section, there shall not be taken into account any wages paid to, or employment of, an individual performing domestic service as described in this division. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Employment: includes :
(a) Service performed after December 31, 1977, by an individual in the employ of the state or any of its instrumentalities, or any political subdivision thereof or any of its instrumentalities or any instrumentality of more than one of the foregoing or any instrumentality of any of the foregoing and one or more other states or political subdivisions and without regard to divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section, provided that such service is excluded from employment as defined in the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act" 53 Stat. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
- United States: includes the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Week: means the calendar week ending at midnight Saturday unless an equivalent week of seven consecutive calendar days is prescribed by the director. See Ohio Code 4141.01
(1) “Affected unit” means a department, shift, or other organizational unit of two or more employees that is designated by a participating employer in a shared work plan.
(2) “Approved shared work plan” means an employer’s shared work plan, submitted pursuant to section 4141.51 of the Revised Code, that satisfies all of the requirements for approval under that section and that the director of job and family services has approved in writing.
(3) “Intermittent basis” means employment that is not continuous but may consist of periodic intervals of weekly work and intervals of no weekly work.
(4) “Normal weekly hours of work” means the normal hours of work in employment each week for an employee in an affected unit when that unit is operating on a full-time basis, not to exceed forty hours and not including any overtime worked.
(5) “Participating employee” means an employee whose normal weekly hours of work are reduced by the reduction percentage under an approved shared work plan.
(6) “Participating employer” means an employer who has an approved shared work plan in effect.
(7) “Reduction percentage” means the percentage by which each participating employee’s normal weekly hours of work are reduced under an approved shared work plan.
(8) “Seasonal basis” has the same meaning as “seasonal employment” as defined in division (A) of section 4141.33 of the Revised Code.
(9) “Shared work compensation” means the pro rata share of unemployment compensation benefits payable to a participating employee under an approved shared work plan. “Shared work compensation” does not include unemployment compensation benefits otherwise payable to an eligible claimant who is totally or partially unemployed.
(10) “Temporary basis” means employment where an employee is expected to remain in a position for only a limited period of time or is hired by a temporary agency to fill a gap in the employer’s workforce.
(B) There is hereby created the “SharedWork Ohio” program, under which an employer who participates in the program reduces the number of hours worked by the employees of the employer in lieu of layoffs.
The director may adopt rules as the director determines necessary to implement any guidance issued by the United States secretary of labor with respect to the SharedWork Ohio program.