New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 23 - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Subchapter 8 - TUITION POLICIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS; JOB TRAINING PROGRAM
Section 12:23-8.2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Course of instruction, which will assist the individual in gaining reemployment" means a course of instruction, which will substantially enhance the individual's marketable skills or earning power.

1. A course of instruction does not assist the individual in gaining reemployment if the individual already possesses identifiable job skills, unless those skills need to be upgraded in order for the individual to reach a level of self-sufficiency.

"Identifiable job skill" means an identifiable marketable skill in a labor demand occupation.

"Job order" means a notice of vacancy submitted by an employer to a One-Stop Career Center.

"Job training course" means any course of instruction, which will, as determined by a One-Stop Career Center, provide the individual with an identifiable job skill and assist the individual in gaining reemployment, any course of instruction, which is part of a training program approved by a One-Stop Career Center pursuant to the provisions of 43:21-4(c)(4), or any course of instruction, which is part of the education and training described in the Employability Development Plan developed for the individual by a One-Stop Career Center pursuant to 43:21-59.

"Labor demand occupation" means an occupation, which:

1. The Center for Occupational Employment Information has, pursuant to 34:1A-86, determined is or will be, on a regional basis, subject to a significant excess of demand over supply for trained workers, based on a comparison of the total need or anticipated need for trained workers with the total number being trained; or

2. The Center for Occupational Employment Information, in conjunction with a Workforce Investment Board, has, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 34:1A-86, determined is or will be, in the region for which the board is responsible, subject to a significant excess of demand over supply for adequately trained workers, based on a comparison of total need or anticipated need for trained workers with the total number being trained.

"Marketable skill" means a skill identified by a prospective employer in a job order.

"One-Stop Career Center" means any of the facilities established, sponsored or designated by the State, a political subdivision of the State and a Workforce Investment Board in a local area to coordinate or make available State and local programs providing employment and training services or other employment-directed and workforce development programs and activities, including job placement services, and any other similar facility as may be established, sponsored or designated at any later time to coordinate or make available any of those programs, services or activities.

"Public institution of higher education" or "institution" means the State colleges and the New Jersey Institute of Technology and all other institutions indicated by 18A:62-1.

"Unemployed" means that the individual is not performing services for which he or she is receiving remuneration.