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circumstances, does not customarily work the customary
scheduled full-time hours prevailing in the establishment
in which he is employed.

(2) The Board shall prescribe fair and reasonable
general rules applicable to part-time workers, for deter-
mining their full-time weekly wage, and the total wages
required to qualify such workers for benefits. Such rules
shall, with respect to such workers, supersede any incon-
sistent provisions of this act, but, so far as practicable,
shall secure results reasonably similar to those provided
in the analogous provisions of this Act.

(g) SEASONAL WORKERS.

(1) As used in this section the term "seasonal industry"
means an occupation or industry in which, because of the
seasonal nature thereof it is customary to operate only
during a regularly recurring period or periods of less
than twenty weeks in a calendar year. The Board shall,
after investigation and hearing, determine, and may
thereafter from time to time redetermine, the longest
seasonal period or periods during which, by the best prac-
tice of the occupation or industry in question, operations
are conducted. Until such determination by the Board,
no occupation or industry shall be deemed seasonal.

(2) The term "seasonal worker" means an individual
who is ordinarily engaged in a seasonal industry and who,
during the portion or portions of the year when such
industry is not in operation, is ordinarily not engaged in
any other work.

(3) The Board shall prescribe fair and reasonable gen-
eral rules applicable to seasonal workers for determining
the total wages required to qualify such workers for bene-
fits and the period during which benefits shall be payable
to them.

(h) RECIPROCAL BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS.

The Board is hereby authorized to enter into arrange-
ments with the appropriate agencies of other States
or the Federal Government whereby potential rights to
benefits accummulated under the unemployment compen-
sation laws of the several States or under such a law of
the Federal Government, or both, may constitute the basis
for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate
agency under terms which the Board finds will be fair
and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not
result in any substantial loss to the fund.