As used in this act:

1. 1. "Affected unit" means a specified department, shift or other unit of two or more employees that is designated by an employer to participate in a shared work plan;
2. 2. "Fringe benefit" means health insurance, a retirement benefit received under a pension plan, a paid vacation day, a paid holiday, sick leave, and any other analogous employee benefit that is provided by an employer;
3. 3. "Fund" means the Unemployment Trust Fund established by Section 3-605 of Title 40 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
4. 4. "Normal weekly hours of work" means the lesser of forty (40) hours or the average obtained by dividing the total number of hours worked per week during the preceding twelve-week period by the number twelve;
5. 5. "Participating employee" means an employee who works a reduced number of hours under a shared work plan;
6. 6. "Participating employer" means an employer who has a shared work plan in effect;
7. 7. "Commission" has the same meaning as set out in Section 1-206 of Title 40 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
8. 8. "Shared work benefit" means an unemployment compensation benefit that is payable to an individual in an affected unit because the individual works reduced hours under an approved shared work plan;
9. 9. "Shared work plan" means a program for reducing unemployment under which employees who are members of an affected unit share the work remaining after a reduction in their normal weekly hours of work; and
10. 10. "Shared Work Unemployment Compensation Program" means a program designed to reduce unemployment and stabilize the work force by allowing certain employees to collect unemployment compensation benefits if the employees share the work remaining after a reduction in the total number of hours of work and a corresponding reduction in wages.

Laws 2010, SB 1970, c. 344, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 2010.