Tennessee § 50-7-803 - Part definitions.

§ 50-7-803. Part definitions.

As used in this part: “Department” means the department of labor and workforce development; “Dislocated worker” means an individual who: Has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment, including an individual: Currently eligible for unemployment insurance benefits; or Who has exhausted entitlement to unemployment insurance benefits; Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment as a result of any permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise, including a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that the facility will close within one hundred eighty (180) days; Was self-employed, but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters; or Is a displaced homemaker; “Displaced homemaker” means an individual who has been: Providing unpaid services to the individual's family members in the home; and Dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income; “Eligible business” means a business determined by the department to be eligible for Tennessee works pilot program grants; “Eligible training expenses” means expenses determined by the department to be eligible for grants awarded through the Tennessee works pilot program; and “Trade adjustment assistance funds” means funds distributed in accordance with the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002, compiled in title 19 of the United States Code. Acts 2012, ch. 1068, § 1.