Shared Work is a voluntary program that
provides employers facing a temporary
decline in business with an alternative
to layoffs. Rather than laying off a
percentage of the work force to cut
costs, an employer can reduce the hours
and wages of all or a particular group
of employees. The employees whose hours
and wages are reduced can receive
partial unemployment insurance benefits
to supplement their lost wages.
The first release of the Shared Work
application is a web application that
enables the Shared Work Unit to enter
minimal data to create a shared work
plan and to data enter the
participating employee data. This will
be stored in the Oracle enterprise
database tables. When the Shared Work
Unit receives questions from claimants
and certification ‘coupons’, they
will use the shared work application to
search for claimant by SSN.