Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
23:1514.
