Pub. L. 95-250, tit. II, sec. 207

Sec. 207. (a) Except as further provided in this section, the amount of an eligible employee’s weekly layoff benefit shall be equal to (1) the annual average of all hours of work performed by said employee for the last affected employer or whom the employee worked prior to the date of enactment of this section during those three of the five calendar years immediately preceding said date during which such hours were greatest, counting hours paid for at time and a half and double time as one and one-half and two hours, respectively, multiplied by (2) the wage rate applicable, during the week for which the benefit is payable, to the highest paid job held by said employee, other than by temporary assignment, with said affected employer during the period from January 1, 1977. through the date of enactment of this section, and divided by (3) fifty-two. (b) The weekly benefit amount for an eligible employee with less than five calendar years of employment with one affected employer immediately prior to the enactment date shall be equal to the lessor of— (1) the average benefit that would be payable with respect to the same week to those covered employees (if they were eligible in the same week) who had five or more calendar years of employment with the same affected employer (in accord with subsection (a) of this section) whose benefit amounts are computed on the basis of the wage rate for a job the same as, or most similar to, the highest paid job said employee had held, other than by temporary assignment, with said affected employer during the period from January 1, 1977, through the date of enactment of this section, or (2) an amount calculated by substituting in clause (1) of subsection (a) the annual average of all hours of work performed by said employee for said employer during those calendar years for which said employee had performed work and throughout which he had seniority (or continuous service). (c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary shall classify as a “seasonal employee” any affected employee whose highest paid job held, other than by temporary assignment, with said affected employer during the period from January 1, 1977, through the date of enactment of this section was in an occupation in which the average annual number of weeks during which work was actually performed by all covered employees employed in said occupation during the five calendar years preceding the enactment date was forty or less. With respect to such seasonal employees— (1) the calculation of benefit amount set forth in subsection (a) shall be modified by— (A) deducting from the hours for which said employee received pay those hours representing vacation pay and vacation pay increments and; (B) substituting for the fifty-two provided in clause (3) of subsection (a) a divisor equal to the average annual number of weeks for which said employee performed work for an affected employer in said occupation during those three of the five calendar years immediately preceding the date of enactment during which the number of such weeks was greatest: Provided, That this calculation shall be modified in accord with subsection (b) with respect to those employees who had less than five calendar years of employment with one affected employer immediately prior to the date of enactment of this section. 92 STAT. 179 (2) the number of weekly benefits payable in any calendar year shall not exceed the annual average number of weeks for which a seasonal employee received pay from an affected employer for work performed in the employee’s occupation, as established by paragraph (1)(B), and shall be payable only during those weeks of each year determined by the Secretary to be the usual season for that occupation; (3) vacation pay and vacation pay increments shall be paid in the same amounts and at the same times of each year as they would have been paid had said employee performed work during all of the time for which said employee receives layoff benefits. Such pay is referred to herein as “vacation replacement benefits”, (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the benefits for any affected employee who will reach the age of sixty on or before September 30, 1984, shall be extended after the end of the employee’s period of protection (unless severance pay has been accepted) until the employee’s sixty-fifth birthday, and shall be equal to said employee’s weekly layoff benefit. (e) The benefit amount provided by this section for any week of total or partial layoff shall be reduced by— (1) the full amount of any earnings, including pay for time not worked with respect to the same week, from employment obtained pursuant to section 103, or employment by employers engaged in timber harvesting, or in related sawmill, plywood, and other wood processing operations; (2) 50 per centum of earnings and pay for time not worked from any other employer with respect to that week; and (3) the full amount of any unemployment compensation attributable to that week.