[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR604.3]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 604--REGULATIONS FOR BIRTH AND ADOPTION UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 604.3  What definitions apply to this regulation?

    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.