Relating to requirements regarding an employee's normal weekly hours of work under the shared work unemployment compensation program.

HB 1843 modifies Texas' shared work unemployment program by reducing the maximum allowable reduction in an employee's weekly work hours from 50% to 40%. This change applies to employers seeking to implement shared work plans - where employees work fewer hours instead of facing layoffs - and affects workers in covered employers' affected units. The bill requires that any shared work plan must reduce hours by at least 10% but no more than 40%, while also maintaining fringe benefits and meeting other existing program requirements. The law applies only to new or modified plans submitted on or after the bill’s effective date.