Eligibility for a Regular Benefit and a Transitional Assistance Benefit. An Employee shall be eligible for a Regular Benefit or a Transitional Assistance Benefit for any week beginning on or after October 22, 2015, if with respect to such week he:
(a) was on a qualifying layoff, as described in Section (3) of this Article, for all or part of the week;
(b) received a State System Benefit not currently under protest by the Company or was ineligible for a State System Benefit only for one or more of the following reasons:
(i) he did not have prior to layoff a sufficient period of employment or earnings covered by the State System;
(ii) exhaustion of his State System Benefit rights;
(iii) the number of days he worked in the week (for the Company and for any other employer(s)) plus the number of days in the week during which work was made available to him by the Company but not worked; or because his pay (from the Company and from any other employer(s)) for the week plus the amount of pay applicable to hours of work in the week made available to him by the Company but not worked equaled or exceeded the amount which disqualifies him for a State System Benefit or "waiting week" credit; or, because he was employed full time by an employer other than the Company;
(iv) he was serving a State System "waiting week" while temporarily laid off out of line of Seniority pending an adjustment of the work force in accordance with the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement; provided, however, that this item (iv) shall not apply to model change, plant rearrangement, inventory layoffs; layoffs of Employees covered by the National Office and Clerical and Engineering Agreements, except those laid off pursuant to Section (52)(b)
(1) of each such Agreement; layoffs of Employees pending placement pursuant to the terms of Section (61)(d) of the National Production and Maintenance Agreement or corresponding sections of other Collective Bargaining Agreements between the Company and the Union; layoffs of Employees who refuse to exercise their seniority in order to displace junior Employees who are working; or layoffs resulting from temporary adjustments as provided in Sections (58)(c) and (62) of the National Production and Maintenance Agreement or corresponding sections of other Collective Bargaining Agreements between the Company and the Union;
(v) the Employee was on a qualifying layoff and the week served as a "waiting week" within the Employee's benefit year under the State System, or the week was a second "waiting week" within the Employee's ben...
