Section 605. Qualified employers; application

An employer who has at least
  five full time employees may apply  to  participate  in  a  shared  work
  program.  The  application  shall  be  made  according to such forms and
  procedures as the  commissioner  may  specify  and  shall  include  such
  information as the commissioner may require.  The commissioner shall not
  approve  such  application  unless  the employer (1) agrees that for the
  duration of the  program  it  will  not  eliminate  or  diminish  health
  insurance,  medical  insurance, or any other fringe benefits provided to
  employees immediately prior to the application; (2) certifies  that  the
  collective  bargaining  agent  for  the employees, if any, has agreed to
  participate in the program; (3) certifies that if  not  for  the  shared
  work  program  to  be  initiated the employer would reduce or would have
  reduced its work force to a degree equivalent to  the  total  number  of
  working  hours  proposed  to  be  reduced or restricted for all included
  employees; (4) certifies that it will not hire additional part  time  or
  full  time employees for the affected work force while the program is in
  operation; and (5) agrees that  no  participant  of  the  program  shall
  receive,  in the aggregate, more than twenty weeks of benefits exclusive
  of the waiting week.