Pub. L. 93-203, tit. I, sec. 101

description of program

EnactedYear: 1973Length: 361 wordsOfficial source
description of program Sec. 101. It is the purpose of this title to establish a program to provide, comprehensive manpower services throughout the Nation. Such program shall include the development and creation of job opportunities and the training, education, and other sen ices needed to enable individuals to secure and retain employment at their maximum capacity. Comprehensive manpower services may include, but shall not be limited to programs and activities designed to carry out the purpose of t his title, such as— (1) outreach to make persons aware of the availability of manpower services and persuade them to use such services. (2) assessment of the individual’s needs, interests, and potential in the labor market and referral to appropriate employment, training, or other opportunities. (3) orientation, counseling, education, and institutional skill training to prepare the individual to enter the labor market or to qualify for more productive job opportunities. (4) training on the job, (5) payments or other inducements to public or private employers to expand job opportunities, lint payments to employers organized for profit shall not exceed the difference between the costs of recruiting, training, and providing supportive services for low-income persons and those regularly employed, (6) services to individuals to enable them to retain employment. (7) payment of allowances to persons in training for which they receive no remuneration and payment of such allowances for transportation, subsistence, or other expenses incurred in participating in manpower services or employment as are necessary to enable the individual to participate therein, (8) supportive services to enable individuals to take advantage of employment opportunities, including necessary health care and medical services, child care, residential support, assistance in securing bonds, or any other necessary assistance incident to 87 Stat. 841employment, and any other service needed to participate in employment or manpower services. (9) development of information concerning the labor market and activities, such as job restructuring, to make it more responsive to objectives of the manpower services program, (10) manpower training, employment opportunities, and related services conducted by comm unity-based organizations, (11) transitional public service employment programs, and (12) any programs authorized by part A of title 111 and by title IV of this Act.