Section 203. Employees eligible for benefits under section two hundred four  


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  • Employees  in  employment  of  a  covered  employer  for  four  or  more
      consecutive weeks and employees in employment  during  the  work  period
      usual to and available during such four or more consecutive weeks in any
      trade  or  business  in  which  they are regularly employed and in which
      hiring from day to  day  of  such  employees  is  the  usual  employment
      practice  shall  be  eligible  for  disability  benefits  as provided in
      section two hundred four.   Every such employee  shall  continue  to  be
      eligible  during  such  employment  and for a period of four weeks after
      such employment terminates regardless of whether the  employee  performs
      any work for remuneration or profit in non-covered employment. If during
      such four week period the employee performs any work for remuneration or
      profit  for  another covered employer the employee shall become eligible
      for benefits immediately with respect to that  employment.  In  addition
      every  such employee who returns to work with the same employer after an
      agreed and specified unpaid leave of absence  or  vacation  without  pay
      shall  become  eligible  for  benefits  immediately with respect to such
      employment. An employee who during a  period  in  which  he  or  she  is
      eligible  to  receive  benefits  under  subdivision  two  of section two
      hundred seven returns to employment  with  a  covered  employer  and  an
      employee  who  is currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits or
      benefits under section two hundred seven and who returns  to  employment
      with  a  covered employer shall become eligible for benefits immediately
      with  respect  to  such  employment.    An  employee  regularly  in  the
      employment  of  a  single  employer  on  a  work  schedule less than the
      employer's normal work week shall become eligible for  benefits  on  the
      twenty-fifth  day  of  such  regular employment. An employee who becomes
      disabled while eligible for benefits in  the  employment  of  a  covered
      employer  shall not be deemed, for the purposes of this article, to have
      such employment terminated during any period he or she  is  eligible  to
      receive  benefits  under  section  two hundred four with respect to such
      employment.