2012 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 23 — Labor and worker's compensation
RS 23:1750 — Definitions

PART XI. SHARED-WORK PLANS

§1750. Definitions

For the purposes of this Part, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section:

(1) "Affected group" means three or more employees of a specified plant, department, shift, or other affected unit designated by an employer to participate in a shared-work plan. "Sub-group" means a group of employees which constitutes at least ten percent of the employees in an affected group.

(2) "Approved plan" means an employer's voluntary written plan for reducing unemployment under which a specified group of employees shares the work remaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced, which plan meets the requirements of R.S. 23:1750.1, and which plan has been approved in writing by the administrator.

(3) "Fringe benefits" include but are not limited to such advantages as health insurance including hospital, medical, and dental services, retirement benefits under defined benefit pension plans (as defined in Section 3(35) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), paid vacation and holidays, sick leave, etc., which are incidents of employment in addition to the cash remuneration earned.

(4) "Normal weekly hours of work" means the normal hours of work for full-time and permanent part-time employees in the affected group when their employing unit is operating on its normal, full-time basis, not to exceed forty hours and not including overtime.

(5) "Shared-work benefits" means the unemployment compensation benefits payable to employees in an affected group under an approved plan as distinguished from the unemployment benefits otherwise payable under other provisions of this Chapter.

(6) "Shared-work employer" means an employer with a shared-work plan in effect. An individual who or an employing unit which succeeds to or acquires, pursuant to R.S. 23:1539, an organization, trade, or business with a shared-work plan in effect automatically becomes a shared-work employer and adopts such plan, if such individual or employing unit ratifies, in writing, the previously approved plan.

(7) "Unemployment compensation" means the unemployment benefits payable under this Chapter other than shared-work benefits and includes any amounts payable pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for compensation, assistance, or allowances with respect to unemployment.

Acts 1985, No. 895, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.