§3204 — Title 29 Labor | U.S. Code

Summary

Each Job Corps center must have a workforce council. The center director must appoint it using the Secretary’s rules. Most members must be private business owners or top managers with hiring or policy roles who represent local kinds of jobs. The council must also include labor or employee representatives and current enrollees or graduates. It can include local board members who qualify, and it can bring in employers from outside the area who are likely to hire many students. If the area is a single-State local area, the council must include a State Board representative. The council must work with local boards to recommend career and technical training to the Secretary. It must review labor market information, including State or local plans, to identify in-demand industries and jobs, local job openings, and the skills and education needed. The council must meet at least once every 6 months to update its findings and recommendations. If a center is not yet open, the council must do this at least 3 months before the center accepts its first enrollee.

Title 29, §3204

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(a)Each Job Corps center shall have a workforce council, appointed by the director of the center, in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.

(b)(1)A workforce council shall be comprised of—

(A)a majority of members who shall be owners of business concerns, chief executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental employers, or other private sector employers, who—

(i)have substantial management, hiring, or policy responsibility; and

(ii)represent businesses with employment opportunities that reflect the employment opportunities of the applicable local areas in which enrollees will be seeking employment;

(B)representatives of labor organizations (where present) and representatives of employees; and

(C)enrollees and graduates of the Job Corps.

(2)The workforce council may include members of the applicable local boards who meet the requirements described in paragraph (1).

(3)The workforce council for a Job Corps center may include, or otherwise provide for consultation with, employers from outside the local area who are likely to hire a significant number of enrollees from the Job Corps center.

(4)In the case of a single State local area designated under section 3121(d) of this title, the workforce council shall include a representative of the State Board.

(c)The responsibilities of the workforce council shall be—

(1)to work closely with all applicable local boards in order to determine, and recommend to the Secretary, appropriate career and technical education and training for the center;

(2)to review all the relevant labor market information, including related information in the State plan or the local plan, to—

(A)recommend the in-demand industry sectors or occupations in the area in which the Job Corps center operates;

(B)determine the employment opportunities in the local areas in which the enrollees intend to seek employment after graduation;

(C)determine the skills and education that are necessary to obtain the employment opportunities; and

(D)recommend to the Secretary the type of career and technical education and training that should be implemented at the center to enable the enrollees to obtain the employment opportunities; and

(3)to meet at least once every 6 months to reevaluate the labor market information, and other relevant information, to determine, and recommend to the Secretary, any necessary changes in the career and technical education and training provided at the center.

(d)The workforce council for a Job Corps center that is not yet operating shall carry out the responsibilities described in subsection (c) at least 3 months prior to the date on which the center accepts the first enrollee at the center.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after

July 22, 2014 (

July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title.

§3204 Workforce councils

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