Dislocated Workers Law and Legal Definition
Dislocated Workers means individuals who are:
1. terminated or laid off or received a notice of termination or layoff from employment.
2. eligible for or have exhausted their entitlement to unemployment compensation.
3. unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation.
4. long-term unemployed.
5. limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or a similar occupation in the area in which such individuals reside.
6. older and who may have substantial barriers to employment by reason of age.
7. self-employed (including farmers and ranchers).
8. unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which they reside or because of natural disasters.
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Benefit Period [Adjustment Assistance for Workers]
- Blue-Collar Workers
- Contingent Workers
- Craft Workers (Skilled)
- Division of Workers' Compensation
- Frontier Workers (Tax)
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers
- Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)
- Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
- Service Workers
