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DEFINITION A striker is considered to be anyone involved in a strike or concerted stoppage of work by employees (including a stoppage by reason of the expiration of a collective-bargaining agreement) and any concerted slowdown or other concerted interruption of operations by employees. EXCEPTIONS TO STRIKER PROVISIONS Striker provisions should not be applied in the following instances: 1. Employees who go on strike and would have been exempt from the TANF Work Program the day prior to the strike. EXAMPLE: An individual goes on strike on January 5th. As of January 4th, (the day prior to the strike) she would have been exempt from TWP due to a child under age 1. The individual is still on strike in March and applies for TANF on March 16th. The striker provisions will not be applied because of her TWP status the day prior to the strike. 2. Striking employees who are notified by their employer that permanent replacements have been hired and no jobs are available for them. NOTE: Employees of the Federal Government or of a State who engage in a strike against the government or State and are dismissed from their job because of participation in the strike are no longer considered strikers. However, these individuals are considered to have voluntarily quit such job without good cause. 3. Employees, who through no fault of their own, may seemingly be connected with a strike but are nevertheless considered non-strikers. These include but may not be limited to: a. Employees whose workplace is closed by an employer in order to resist demands of employees (i.e., a lockout); b. Employees unable to work as a result of striking employees (i.e., truck drivers who are not working because striking newspaper pressmen prevent newspapers from being printed); and

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