{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-341.096","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 341.096","heading":"Additional, extended, fringe, regular, and shared work benefits -- Affected","body":"group -- Approved plan -- Eligibility period -- Exhaustee -- Normal weekly\nhours of work -- Rate of insured unemployment -- Shared work employer --\nSubgroup.\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:\n(1) \"Additional benefits\" means benefits payable to exhaustees by reason of conditions\nof high unemployment or by reason of other special factors under the provisions of\nany state law;\n(2) \"Affected group\" means two (2) or more employees designated by an employer to\nparticipate in a shared work plan;\n(3) \"Approved plan\" means an employer's voluntary, written plan for reducing\nunemployment under which a specified group of employees shares the wo rk\nremaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced, which plan meets\nthe requirements of KRS 341.4161 and which plan has been approved in writing by\nthe secretary;\n(4) \"Eligibility period\" of a worker means the period consisting of the weeks in his or\nher benefit year which begin in an extended benefit period and, if his or her benefit\nyear ends within such extended benefit period, any weeks thereafter which begin in\nsuch period;\n(5) \"Exhaustee\" means a worker who, with respect to any week of unemployment in his\nor her eligibility period:\n(a) Has received, prior to such week, all of the regular benefits that were\navailable to him or her under this chapter or any other state law (including\ndependents' allowances and benefits payable to federal civilian employees and\nex-servicemen under 5 U.S.C. ch. 85) in his or her current benefit year that\nincludes such week; provided, that, for the purposes of this paragraph, an\nindividual shall be deemed to have received all of the regular benefits that\nwere available to him or her although, as a result of a pending appeal with\nrespect to wages and/or employment that were not considered in the original\nmonetary determination in his or her benefit year, he or she may subsequently\nbe determined to be entitled to added regular benefits; or\n(b) His or her benefit year having expired prior to such week, has no, or\ninsufficient, wages and/or employment on the basis of which he or she could\nestablish a new benefit year that would include such week; and\n(c) Has no righ t to unemployment benefits or allowances, as the case may be,\nunder the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act or under such other federal\nlaws as are specified in regulations issued by the United States Secretary of\nLabor; and has not received and is not see king unemployment benefits under\nthe unemployment compensation law of Canada; but if the individual is\nseeking such benefits and the appropriate agency finally determines that the\nindividual is not entitled to benefits under such law, the individual shall be\nconsidered an exhaustee if the other provisions of this definition are met;\n(6) \"Extended benefits\" means benefits, including benefits payable to federal civilian\nemployees and to ex -servicemen pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ch. 85, payable to a worker\nunder the provisions of KRS 341.700 to 341.740 for weeks of unemployment in his\nor her eligibility period;\n(7) \"Fringe benefits\" includes advantages such as health insurance, retirement benefits,\npaid vacation and holidays, and sick leave, which are incidents of employment in\naddition to the cash remuneration earned;\n(8) \"Normal weekly hours of wo rk\" means the normal hours of work for full -time and\npermanent part -time employees in the affected group when their employer is\noperating on its normal, full -time basis, not to exceed forty (40) hours and not\nincluding overtime;\n(9) \"Rate of insured unemployment\" means the percentage derived by dividing:\n(a) The weekly average number of weeks claimed in claims filed for regular\nbenefits, not seasonally adjusted, in this state for weeks of unemployment\nwith respect to the most recent thirteen (13) consecutiv e-week period, as\ndetermined by the secretary on the basis of his or her report to the United\nStates Secretary of Labor; by\n(b) The average monthly employment covered under this chapter for the first four\n(4) of the most recent six (6) completed calendar q uarters ending before the\nend of such thirteen (13) week period. Such computations shall be made by\nthe secretary, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the United States\nSecretary of Labor;\n(10) \"Regular benefits\" means benefits payable to a worker  under this chapter or under\nan unemployment compensation law of any other state, including benefits payable\nto federal civilian employees and to ex -servicemen pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ch. 85,\nother than extended benefits and additional benefits;\n(11) \"Shared work benefits\" means the unemployment compensation benefits payable to\nemployees in an affected group under an approved plan as distinguished from the\nunemployment benefits otherwise payable under other provisions of this chapter;\n(12) \"Shared work employer\" means an employer with a shared work plan in effect. An\nindividual who, or an entity which, succeeds to or acquires an organization,\ncorporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other business with a shared\nwork plan in effect automatically b ecomes a shared work employer and adopts the\nplan if the individual or entity ratifies, in writing, the previously approved plan; and\n(13) \"Subgroup\" means a group of employees which constitutes at least ten percent\n(10%) of the employees in an affected group.","path":["KRS Chapter 341"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=53248","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:28Z","sha256":"3b78cd369b47f10bffbbf1bf368b5adc09d92f92700dde6ac84d7a5553fbeaea","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-341.094","next":"us-ky/krs-341.100"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}