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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—APR. 16, 1996 110 STAT. 4423 U.S.C. §§ 7101 et seq., as applied to covered employees and employ- ing offices by section 220 of the CAA, 2 U.S.C. § 1351. (e) AFFECTED EMPLOYEES.— The term "affected employees" means employees who may reasonably be expected to experience an employment loss as a consequence of a proposed office closing or mass layoff by their employing office. This includes individually identifiable employees who will likely lose their jobs because of bumping rights or other factors, to the extent that such individual workers reasonably can be identified at the time notice is required to be given. The term affected employees includes managerial and supervisory employees. Consultant or contract employees who have a separate employment relationship with another employing office or employer and are paid by that other employing office or employer, or who are self-employed, are not "affected employees" of the operations to which they are assigned. In addition, for purposes of determining whether coverage thresholds are met, either incumbent workers in jobs being eliminated or, if known 60 days in advance, the actual employees who suffer an employment loss may be counted. (f) EMPLOYMENT LOSS. —(1) The term employment loss means (i) an employment termination, other than a discharge for cause, voluntary departure, or retirement, (ii) a layoff exceeding 6 months, or (iii) a reduction in hours of work of individual employees of more them 50 percent during each month of any 6-month period. (2) Where a termination or a layoff (see paragraphs (f)(1)(i) and (ii) of this section) is involved, an employment loss does not occur when an employee is reassigned or transferred to employing office-sponsored programs, such as retraining or job search activities, as long as the reassignment does not constitute a constructive discharge or other involuntary termination. (3) An employee is not considered to have experienced an employment loss if the closing or layoff is the result of the relocation or consolidation of part or all of the employing office's operations and, prior to the closing or layoff— (i) The employing office offers to transfer the employee to a different site of employment within a reasonable commuting distance with no more than a 6-month breeik in employment, or (ii) The employing office offers to transfer the employee to any other site of employment regardless of distance with no more than a 6-month break in employment, and the employee accepts within 30 days of the offer or of the closing or layoff, whichever is later. (4) A "relocation or consolidation" of part or all of an employing office's operations, for purposes of paragraph § 639.3(f)(3), means that some definable operations are transferred to a different site of employment and that transfer results in an office closing or mass layoff. (g) PART-TIME EMPLOYEE. —The term "part-time" employee means an employee who is employed for an average of fewer than 20 hours per week or who has been employed for fewer than 6 of the 12 months preceding the date on which notice is required, including workers who work full-time. This term may include workers who would traditionally be understood as "seasonal" employees. The period to be used for calculating whether a worker has worked "an average of fewer than 20 hours per week" is the shorter of

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