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29 U.S.C. § 3111 — Purposes
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The purposes of this Act are the following:
(1) To increase, for individuals in the United States, particularly those individuals with barriers to employment, access to and opportunities for the employment, education, training, and support services they need to succeed in the labor market.
(2) To support the alignment of workforce investment, education, and economic development systems in support of a comprehensive, accessible, and high-quality workforce development system in the United States.
(3) To improve the quality and labor market relevance of workforce investment, education, and economic development efforts to provide America’s workers with the skills and credentials necessary to secure and advance in employment with family-sustaining wages and to provide America’s employers with the skilled workers the employers need to succeed in a global economy.
(4) To promote improvement in the structure of and delivery of services through the United States workforce development system to better address the employment and skill needs of workers, jobseekers, and employers.
(5) To increase the prosperity of workers and employers in the United States, the economic growth of communities, regions, and States, and the global competitiveness of the United States.
(6) For purposes of parts A and B of subchapter I, to provide workforce investment activities, through statewide and local workforce development systems, that increase the employment, retention, and earnings of participants, and increase attainment of recognized postsecondary credentials by participants, and as a result, improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, increase economic self-sufficiency, meet the skill requirements of employers, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the
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The purposes of this Act are the following:
(1) To increase, for individuals in the United States, particularly those individuals with barriers to employment, access to and opportunities for the employment, education, training, and support services they need to succeed in the labor market.
(2) To support the alignment of workforce investment, education, and economic development systems in support of a comprehensive, accessible, and high-quality workforce development system in the United States.
(3) To improve the quality and labor market relevance of workforce investment, education, and economic development efforts to provide America’s workers with the skills and credentials necessary to secure and advance in employment with family-sustaining wages and to provide America’s employers with the skilled workers the employers need to succeed in a global economy.
(4) To promote improvement in the structure of and delivery of services through the United States workforce development system to better address the employment and skill needs of workers, jobseekers, and employers.
(5) To increase the prosperity of workers and employers in the United States, the economic growth of communities, regions, and States, and the global competitiveness of the United States.
(6) For purposes of parts A and B of subchapter I, to provide workforce investment activities, through statewide and local workforce development systems, that increase the employment, retention, and earnings of participants, and increase attainment of recognized postsecondary credentials by participants, and as a result, improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, increase economic self-sufficiency, meet the skill requirements of employers, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the Nation.
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**(a) Workforce Investment Act of 1998 references** Except as otherwise specified, a reference in a Federal law to a provision of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 ([29 U.S.C. 2801](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section2801&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) shall be deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of this Act.
**(b) Wagner-Peyser Act references** Except as otherwise specified, a reference in a Federal law to a provision of the Wagner-Peyser Act ([29 U.S.C. 49](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section49&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) shall be deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of such Act, as amended by this Act.
**(c) Disability-related references** Except as otherwise specified, a reference in a Federal law to a provision of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ([29 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) shall be deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of such Act, as amended by this Act.
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In this Act, and the core program provisions that are not in this Act, except as otherwise expressly provided:
(1) **Administrative costs** — The term “administrative costs” means expenditures incurred by State boards and local boards, direct recipients (including State grant recipients under part B of subchapter I and recipients of awards under parts C and D of subchapter I), local grant recipients, local fiscal agents or local grant subrecipients, and one-stop operators in the performance of administrative functions and in carrying out activities under subchapter I that are not related to the direct provision of workforce investment services (including services to participants and employers). Such costs include both personnel and nonpersonnel costs and both direct and indirect costs.
(2) **Adult** — Except as otherwise specified in [section 3172 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3172&num=0&edition=prelim), the term “adult” means an individual who is age 18 or older.
(3) **Adult education; adult education and literacy activities** — The terms “adult education” and “adult education and literacy activities” have the meanings given the terms in [section 3272 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3272&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) **Area career and technical education school** — The term “area career and technical education school” has the meaning given the term in [section 2302 of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section2302&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Basic skills deficient** — The term “basic skills deficient” means, with respect to an individual—
(A) who is a youth, that the individual has English reading, wri
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**(a) In general** Each local board shall develop and submit to the Governor a comprehensive 4-year local plan, in partnership with the chief elected official. The local plan shall support the strategy described in the State plan in accordance with [section 3112(b)(1)(E) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3112/b/1/E&num=0&edition=prelim), and otherwise be consistent with the State plan. If the local area is part of a planning region, the local board shall comply with [section 3121(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3121/c&num=0&edition=prelim) in the preparation and submission of a regional plan. At the end of the first 2-year period of the 4-year local plan, each local board shall review the local plan and the local board, in partnership with the chief elected official, shall prepare and submit modifications to the local plan to reflect changes in labor market and economic conditions or in other factors affecting the implementation of the local plan.
**(b) Contents** The local plan shall include—
(1) a description of the strategic planning elements consisting of—
(A) an analysis of the regional economic conditions including—
(i) existing and emerging in-demand industry sectors and occupations; and
(ii) the employment needs of employers in those industry sectors and occupations;
(B) an analysis of the knowledge and skills needed to meet the employment needs of the employers in the region, including employment needs in in-demand industry sectors and occupations;
(C) an analysis of the workforce in the region, including current labor force employment (and unemployment) data, and information on labor market trends, and the educational and
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**(a)** This chapter may be cited as the “Labor Management Relations Act, 1947”.
**(b)** Industrial strife which interferes with the normal flow of commerce and with the full production of articles and commodities for commerce, can be avoided or substantially minimized if employers, employees, and labor organizations each recognize under law one another’s legitimate rights in their relations with each other, and above all recognize under law that neither party has any right in its relations with any other to engage in acts or practices which jeopardize the public health, safety, or interest.It is the purpose and policy of this chapter, in order to promote the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce, to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with labor organizations whose activities affect commerce, to define and proscribe practices on the part of labor and management which affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes affecting commerce.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 105–220, title I, § 101, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 939; Pub. L. 105–244, title I, § 102(d)(1), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1622; Pub. L. 105–332, § 3(f), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3126; Pub. L. 106–400, § 2, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1675; Pub. L. 107–110, title X, § 1076(w), Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 2093; Pub. L. 109–270, § 2(h)(1), (2), Aug. 12, 2006, 120 Stat. 747; Pub. L. 110–234, title IV, § 4002(b)(1)(B), (E), (2)(R), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1096, 1097; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title IV, § 4002(b)(1)(B), (E), (2)(R), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1857, 1858, defined terms. See [section 3102 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3102&num=0&edition=prelim).
Provisions similar to those formerly contained in this section were contained in [section 1503 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section1503&num=0&edition=prelim) prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220.
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Repeal 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 an Effective Date note under [section 3101 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3101&num=0&edition=prelim).
#### Short Title of 2007 Amendment
Pub. L. 110–140, title X, § 1001, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1748, provided that: “This title [amending [section 2916 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section2916&num=0&edition=prelim)] may be cited as the ‘Green Jobs Act of 2007’.”
#### Short Title of 2006 Amendment
Pub. L. 109–281, § 1, Sept. 22, 2006, 120 Stat. 1173, provided that: “This Act [enacting [section 2918
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**(a) In General.—** Upon determination that a change in the workforce at a defense nuclear facility is necessary, the Secretary of Energy shall develop a plan for restructuring the workforce for the defense nuclear facility that takes into account—
(1) the reconfiguration of the defense nuclear facility; and
(2) the plan for the nuclear weapons stockpile that is the most recently prepared plan at the time of the development of the plan referred to in this subsection.
**(b) Consultation.—**
(1) In developing a plan referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with the Secretary of Labor, appropriate representatives of local and national collective-bargaining units of individuals employed at Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities, appropriate representatives of departments and agencies of State and local governments, appropriate representatives of State and local institutions of higher education, and appropriate representatives of community groups in communities affected by the restructuring plan.
(2) The Secretary shall determine appropriate representatives of the units, governments, institutions, and groups referred to in paragraph (1).
**(c) Objectives.—** In preparing the plan required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall be guided by the following objectives:
(1) Changes in the workforce at a Department of Energy defense nuclear facility—
(A) should be accomplished so as to minimize social and economic impacts;
(B) should be made only after the provision of notice of such changes not later than 120 days before the commencement of such changes to such employees and the communities in which such facilities are located; and
(C) should be accomplished, when possible, through the use of retraining, early retirement, attrition,
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**(a) Policies, procedures and recommendations** Further to promote achievement of full employment under this chapter and the Employment Act of 1946 [[15 U.S.C. 1021](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1021&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the President, through the Secretary of Labor, shall develop policies and procedures and, as necessary, recommend programs for providing employment opportunities to individuals aged 16 and over in the civilian labor force who are able, willing, and seeking to work but who, despite serious efforts to obtain employment, remain unemployed.
**(b) Utilization of authority under other laws** In meeting the responsibilities under subsection (a), the Secretary of Labor shall, as appropriate, fully utilize the authority provided under title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act [[29 U.S.C. 3111](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3111&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] and other relevant provisions of law to—
(1) assure the availability of counseling, training, and other support activities necessary to prepare persons willing and seeking work for employment;
(2) refer persons able, willing, and seeking to work to job opportunities in the private and public sectors through the existing public employment placement facilities and through the United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor, including job opportunities in any positions created under programs established pursuant to sections 3112, 3114, and 3115 of this title; and
(3) encourage flexi-time and part-time jobs for persons who are able, willing, and seeking employment but who are unable to work a standard workweek.
**(c) Establishment of project reservoirs; restrictions and requirem
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**(a) Loans to small business concerns; allowable purposes; qualified business; restrictions and limitations** The Administration is empowered to the extent and in such amounts as provided in advance in appropriation Acts to make loans for plant acquisition, construction, conversion, or expansion, including the acquisition of land, material, supplies, equipment, and working capital, and to make loans to any qualified small business concern, including those owned by qualified Indian tribes, for purposes of this chapter. Such financings may be made either directly or in cooperation with banks or other financial institutions through agreements to participate on an immediate or deferred (guaranteed) basis. These powers shall be subject, however, to the following restrictions, limitations, and provisions:
(1) **In general.—**
(A) *Credit elsewhere.—*
(i) *In general.—* — The Administrator has the authority to direct, and conduct oversight for, the methods by which lenders determine whether a borrower is able to obtain credit elsewhere. No financial assistance shall be extended pursuant to this subsection if the applicant can obtain credit elsewhere. No immediate participation may be purchased unless it is shown that a deferred participation is not available; and no direct financing may be made unless it is shown that a participation is not available.
(ii) *Liquidity.—* — On and after October 1, 2015, the Administrator may not guarantee a loan under this subsection if the lender determines that the borrower is unable to obtain credit elsewhere solely because the liquidity of the lender depends upon the guaranteed portion of the loan being sold on the secondary market.
(B) *Background checks.—* — Prior to the approval of any loan made pursuant to this subsecti
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to provide grants to institutions of higher education partnering with employers to—
(1) provide relevant job skill training in high-growth and high-wage industries or occupations to nontraditional students; and
(2) strengthen ties between degree credit offerings at institutions of higher education and business and industry workforce needs.
**(b) Authorization**
(1) **In general** — From the amounts appropriated under subsection (k), the Secretary shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible partnerships for the purpose provided in subsection (a).
(2) **Duration** — The Secretary shall award grants under this section for a period of not less than 36 months and not more than 60 months.
(3) **Supplement, not supplant** — Funds made available under this section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds available to the eligible partnership for carrying out the activities described in subsection (c).
**(c) Use of funds** In consultation with all of the members of an eligible partnership, grant funds provided under this section may be used to—
(1) expand or create for-credit academic programs or programs of training that provide relevant job skill training for high-growth and high-wage occupations or industries, including offerings connected to registered apprenticeship programs and entrepreneurial training opportunities;
(2) in consultation with faculty in the appropriate departments of an institution of higher education, adapt college offerings to the schedules and needs of working students, such as the creation of evening, weekend, modular, compressed, or distance learning formats;
(3) purchase equipment that will facilitate the development of academic programs or
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**(a) Eligible agency responsibilities** The responsibilities of an eligible agency under this subchapter shall include—
(1) coordination of the development, submission, and implementation of the State plan, and the evaluation of the program, services, and activities assisted under this subchapter, including preparation for non-traditional fields;
(2) consultation with the Governor and appropriate agencies, groups, and individuals including teachers, faculty, specialized instructional support personnel, paraprofessionals, school leaders, authorized public chartering agencies and charter school leaders (consistent with State law), employers, representatives of business (including small businesses), labor organizations, eligible recipients, local program administrators, State and local officials, Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations present in the State, parents, students, and community organizations;
(3) convening and meeting as an eligible agency (consistent with State law and procedure for the conduct of such meetings) at such time as the eligible agency determines necessary to carry out the eligible agency’s responsibilities under this subchapter, but not less than 4 times annually; and
(4) the adoption of such procedures as the eligible agency considers necessary to—
(A) implement State level coordination with the activities undertaken by the State boards under [section 3111 of title 29](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3111&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(B) make available to the one-stop delivery system under [section 3151 of title 29](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section3151&num=0&edition=prelim) within the State a listing of all school dropout, postsecondary education, and a
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