La. Admin. Code tit. 40 § XVI-103

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XVI-103 - Eligibility

A. An applicant shall be eligible for customized training if it is one of the following:

1. an individual employer that seeks to provide customized training for his incumbent workers to prevent job loss caused by obsolete skills, technological change, or national or global competition;

2. an individual employer that seeks to provide customized training for its incumbent workers to create, update, or retain jobs in a labor demand occupation;

3. an individual employer that seeks to provide customized training for its incumbent workers to update or retain jobs in an occupation which is not a labor demand occupation, if the administrator determines that the services are necessary to prevent the likely loss of jobs;

4. a labor or community-based organization that seeks to provide customized training for a labor demand occupation for workers who are incumbent to an industry, were attached to a contributing employer within the last 12 months, and are not receiving unemployment insurance benefits at time of training;

5. a consortium made up of one or more educational institutions and one or more eligible individual employers, labor, or community-based organizations that seeks to provide customized training for incumbent workers in labor demand occupations;

6. a local economic development entity and one or more eligible individual employers that seek to provide customized training for incumbent workers in a labor demand occupation.

B. Qualified businesses currently receiving training for their employees may, upon the expiration of contracts, apply for new training grants for training of new employees, previously untrained employees, or for additional training of previously trained employees.

C. All applications by eligible applicants for customized training shall be submitted in conjunction with the entity selected by the applicant to provide the customized training. All disbursements of funds for the training shall be made to the entity actually providing the customized training. To be eligible, the training provider selected by the applicant must demonstrate a history of:

1. successful training through its placement, retention, and satisfaction rates;

2. collaboration with the targeted industry in the development of the training program curriculum;

3. use of a current industry standard as the basis for programs utilized to train students for employment in the targeted industry.

La. Admin. Code tit. 40, § XVI-103

Promulgated by the Department of Labor, Office of Workforce Development, LR 25:1142 (June 1999), amended LR 29:2498 (November 2003).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 23:1514.