§ 50-7-803. Part Definitions

As used in this part:

1. “Department” means the department of labor and workforce development;
2. “Dislocated worker” means an individual who:

   1. Has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment, including an individual:
      1. Currently eligible for unemployment insurance benefits; or
      2. Who has exhausted entitlement to unemployment insurance benefits;
   2. 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;
   3. 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
   4. Is a displaced homemaker;
3. “Displaced homemaker” means an individual who has been:

   1. Providing unpaid services to the individual’s family members in the home; and
   2. Dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income;
4. “Eligible business” means a business determined by the department to be eligible for Tennessee works pilot program grants;
5. “Eligible training expenses” means expenses determined by the department to be eligible for grants awarded through the Tennessee works pilot program; and
6. “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.