2017 Idaho Statutes
Title 72 - WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
Chapter 13 - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW
Section 72-1336A - YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS.

Universal Citation: ID Code § 72-1336A (2017)

72-1336A. youth employment and job training programs. (1) Subject to the availability of funds from public and private sources and in consultation with the workforce development council, the director shall develop and implement youth employment and job training programs to increase employment opportunities for Idaho’s youth.
(2) The director shall establish eligibility criteria for participants. At a minimum, participants shall be lawful residents of the United States and the state of Idaho, and eligibility criteria shall not render employment and job training programs ineligible for federal funding.
(3) The director may apply for and accept grants or contributions of funds from any public or private source.
(4) To the extent practicable, the director shall enlist state and federal agencies, local governments, nonprofit organizations, private businesses, and any combination of such entities to act as sponsors for programs administered pursuant to this section. Selection of sponsors shall be based on criteria that include the availability of other resources on a matching basis, including contributions from private sources, other federal, state and local agencies, and moneys available through the federal workforce innovation and opportunity act, 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq., as amended.
(5) Programs developed and implemented under this section shall:
(a) Result in an increase in employment opportunities for youth that would not otherwise be available;
(b) Not result in the displacement or partial displacement of currently employed workers;
(c) Not impair existing contracts for services or result in the substitution of funds available under this section for other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed;
(d) Not substitute jobs that are assisted pursuant to this section for existing federally assisted jobs;
(e) Not employ any person when any other person is on layoff by an employer from the same or any substantially equivalent job in the same area; and
(f) Not be used to employ any person to fill a job opening created by the act of an employer in laying off or terminating employment of any regular employee in anticipation of filling the vacancy by hiring a person to be supported pursuant to this section.
(6) Participants in youth employment and job training programs under this section shall not be employees of the state of Idaho entitled to personnel benefits under the state personnel system, chapter 53, title 67, Idaho Code.

History:
[72-1336A, added 2010, ch. 276, sec. 1, p. 716; am. 2017, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 273.]

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