(1) “Administration” means the Virgin Islands Full Employment Administration.
(2) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Administration.
(3) “Board” means the Advisory Board to the Administration.
(4) “Job training and placement services” or “job training and placement programs” mean any job training, placement, or related services administered or supervised by the Administration or provided under contract with the Administration, directly calculated to increase employability or improve the employment of the individual.
(5) “Unemployed person” means a person who lacks employment, suffers economic problems because of lack of employment, capable of becoming employable becoming employable through the services under this chapter.
(6) “Underemployed person” means a person who has bona fide employment by whose employment, be it full time, or part time, or intermittent, is insufficient to provide an income to avoid economic deprivation.
(7) “Economic deprivation” means an annual income insufficient to enable the family or individual to meet a table of income criteria adopted by the Administrator with the approval of the Governor.
(8) “Eligible person” means any bona fide resident of the Virgin Islands, sixteen years of age and over, for whom suitable employment opportunities are or may be substantially limited because of lack of skills needed to obtain suitable full-time employment or because existing or prospective conditions in the labor market reduce or limit employment opportunities in his present occupation or skill and who has been unable to find employment through normal employment channels.
(9) “Fund” means the Employment Development Fund.
(10) “Economically displaced persons” means persons who have been subjected to an involuntary layoff or separation from their employment, and who have not quit voluntarily or been dismissed for disciplinary reasons.
(11) “Training programs” mean any prevocational, institutional, on-the-job training or related program for occupational training or retraining of training program participants.
(12) “Training program sponsor” means any public or private institution of learning, employer, trade association, labor organization, or other public or private agency or organization, including the Administration, which the Administrator determines is qualified to conduct one or more training programs.
(13) “Training program participant” means an eligible person who has been admitted to a training program.
(14) “Training program costs” mean the aggregate of costs actually incurred by a training program and approved by the Administrator as reasonable and necessary for the development and carrying out of a training program.