West Virginia Code § 18B-7-2

For the purposes of this article and articles eight, nine and nine-a of this chapter, the
following words have the meanings ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates a
different meaning:
(1) "Benefits" means programs that an employer uses to supplement the cash compensation
of employees and includes health and welfare plans, retirement plans, pay for time not
worked and other employee prerequisites.
(2) "Compensation" means cash provided by an employer to an eumployee for services
rendered.
(3) "Compensatory time" and "compensatory time off" mean hours during which the
employee is not working, which are not counted as houars worked during the applicable work
week or other work period for purposes of overtime compensation and for which the
employee is compensated at the employee's regulalr rate of pay.
(4) "Employee classification" or "employee class" means those employees designated as
classified employees; nonclassified employiees, including presidents, chief executives and
administrators and faculty, as these terms are defined in this article and articles eight, nine
and nine-a of this chapter.
(5) "Full-time" means a regular employee whose employment, if continued, accumulates to a
minimum total of one thousand forty hours during a calendar year and extends over at least
nine months of a calendar year
(6) "Health and welfa re benefit plan" means an arrangement which provides any of the
following: MeVdical, dental, visual, psychiatric or long-term health care, life insurance,
accidental death or dismemberment benefits, disability benefits or comparable benefits.
(7) "More senior employees" means an employee who has greater longevity with the
institution than another employee who is also subject to layoff as part of a reduction in force.

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