2012 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 23 Labor
23-763 Shared work benefits; eligibility; requirements

23-763. Shared work benefits; eligibility; requirements

A. An individual is eligible to receive shared work benefits with respect to any week only if, in addition to meeting the requirements of article 6 of this chapter as modified by subsections D and E of this section, the department finds that:

1. During the week the individual is employed as a member of an affected group in an approved plan which was approved prior to the week and is in effect for the week.

2. During the week the individual's normal weekly hours of work were reduced at least ten per cent but not more than forty per cent.

B. The department shall not pay an individual shared work benefits for more than twenty-six weeks in a benefit year, except that this limitation does not apply to a week if for the period consisting of the week and the immediately preceding twelve weeks the rate, not seasonally adjusted, of insured unemployment in this state is equal to or greater than four per cent.

C. The total amount of regular benefits and shared work benefits which the department pays to an individual for weeks in his benefit year shall not exceed the total for the benefit year as provided in section 23-780.

D. The department shall not deny an otherwise eligible individual benefits under this article because of the application of any provision of this chapter relating to availability for work, active search for work or refusal to apply for or accept work from other than the individual's shared work employer.

E. Notwithstanding section 23-621 or any other provision of this chapter, for purposes of this article an individual is unemployed in any week for which compensation is payable to him, as an employee in an affected group, for less than his normal weekly hours of work in accordance with an approved plan in effect for the week.