Definitions

(a) "Administrator" means the Labor Commissioner or any duly authorized representative. (b) "Adversely affected employment" means employment, the loss of which has been caused by or is directly related to sections 22a-77 through 22a-79 of the Connecticut General Statutes. (c) "Amount of unemployment compensation" means an individual's total unemployment rate, as defined in section 31-231a, and includes any dependency allowances, as defined in section 31-234 of the Connecticut General Statutes. (d) "Average weekly earnings" means one-thirteenth of an individual's high quarter gross wages. The high quarter is the quarter in which the individual's wages were highest among the four quarter base period used in determining the individual's amount of unemployment compensation. (e) "Average weekly net earnings" means one thirteenth of an individual's net earnings during the high quarter, which is utilized in determining the individual's amount of unemployment compensation. (f) "Base period" means those quarters of earnings used in determining an individual's total unemployment benefit rate, as defined in section 31-230 of the Connecticut General Statutes. (g) "Benefit period" means a two-year period commencing with an individual's date of loss of employment because of sections 22a-77 through 22a-79 of the Connecticut General Statutes, or January 1, 1980, whichever is later. (h) "Date of separation" means the date on which the individual was laid off or otherwise separated from employment, so as to make the individual a dislocated employee. (i) "Dislocated employee" means any person who suffers loss of employment directly related to, or caused by, the provisions of sections 22a-77 through 22a-79 of the Connecticut General Statutes. (j) "Dislocation allowance" means a weekly allowance payable to a dislocated employee under sections 31-11a-3 through 31-11a-8 of these regulations. (k) "Employer" means any individual or type of organization subject to the provisions of Chapter 567 of the Connecticut General Statutes. (l) "Employment" means any service performed legally for an employer by an individual for wages. (m) "Net earnings" means gross wages less reductions for federal withholding tax and the FICA tax. (n) "Reemployment assistance" means retraining and relocation allowances, employment assistance, and educational training programs. (o) "Trainee" means a dislocated employee undergoing a planned and systematic sequence of instruction to which the individual is referred under sections 31-11a-9 through 31-11a-13 of these regulations. (p) "Unemployment Compensation" means cash benefits payable to an individual with respect to an individual's unemployment under Chapter 567 of General Statutes. (q) "Wages" means "total wages" as defined in section 31-222 (b) (1) of the Connecticut General Statutes. (r) "Week" means a week as defined under section 31-222-13 of the Connecticut Unemployment Compensation Regulations.