605 - Qualified employers; application.
§ 605. Qualified employers; application. An employer who has at least five full time employees may apply to participate in a shared work program. The application shall be made according to such forms and procedures as the commissioner may specify and shall include such information as the commissioner may require. The commissioner shall not approve such application unless the employer (1) agrees that for the duration of the program it will not eliminate or diminish health insurance, medical insurance, or any other fringe benefits provided to employees immediately prior to the application; (2) certifies that the collective bargaining agent for the employees, if any, has agreed to participate in the program; (3) certifies that if not for the shared work program to be initiated the employer would reduce or would have reduced its work force to a degree equivalent to the total number of working hours proposed to be reduced or restricted for all included employees; (4) certifies that it will not hire additional part time or full time employees for the affected work force while the program is in operation; and (5) agrees that no participant of the program shall receive, in the aggregate, more than twenty weeks of benefits exclusive of the waiting week.