The following definitions apply to the regulation in this part:
(a) Approved leave means a specific period of time, agreed to by
both the employee and employer or as required by law or employment
contract (including collective bargaining agreements), during which an
employee is temporarily separated from employment and after which the
employee will return to work for that employer.
(b) Birth and Adoption unemployment compensation means unemployment
compensation paid only to parents on approved leave or who otherwise
leave employment to be with their newborns or newly-adopted children.
(c) Department means the United States Department of Labor.
(d) Newborns means children up to one year old.
(e) Newly-adopted children means children, age 18 years old or
less, who have been placed within the previous 12 calendar months with
an adoptive parent(s).
(f) Parents means mothers and fathers (biological, legal, or who
have custody of a child pending their adoption of that child).
(g) Placement means the time a parent becomes responsible for a
child pending adoption.
(h) State(s) means one of the States of the United States of
America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and
the United States Virgin Islands.
