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ERIC Number: ED376378
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 70
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The Reemployment and Training Act of 1994. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate (March 16, 1994 and July 26, 1994).
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
This document contains testimony from two Senate hearings on the Reemployment and Training Act of 1994 by U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and other witnesses concerning the Act and the need for changes in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to notify employees of impending layoffs. According to Reich, the Reemployment and Training Act is a response to the problem of long-term unemployment and the need to retrain workers dislocated from older industries and prepare them for high-skills jobs in emerging industries. The Reemployment Act rests on four core principles: (1) universal access and program consolidation; (2) customer focus, giving workers a range of options and letting them choose the services they need to get the next job; (3) market-driven retraining; and (4) accountability. The Reemployment Act includes five titles. Title I establishes a comprehensive program for dislocated workers, regardless of the cause of dislocation. Title II establishes a program of income support for permanently dislocated workers while they are pursuing courses of retraining. Title III establishes a national program of grants and waivers to encourage and enable states to develop networks of one-stop career centers; Title IV establishes a national labor market information system to provide universal access to information about where the jobs are and the skills that the jobs require. Title V gives the Secretary of Labor authority to waive federal laws to empower states and localities to streamline job training programs for disadvantaged persons. Witnesses at the second hearing included the following: laid-off workers who testified about the need for retraining; officials of several job training programs who suggested what works in job retraining; and city officials, job training managers, and laid-off workers who testified about how the WARN Act works and how the legislation should be strengthened. (KC)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
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