2012 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 23 — Labor and worker's compensation
RS 23:1825 — Qualifying employment

§1825. Qualifying employment

A. Funds provided under this Chapter shall be used for the purpose of establishing and assisting programs which provide eligible youth with:

(1) Part-time employment during the regular school year, not to exceed eighty hours per month;

(2)(a) Part-time employment, during the months between regular school years, which is combined with remediation, and classroom instruction; or

(b) On-the-job training in conjunction with a program of summer roadway cleanup and beautification authorized through a cooperative agreement between the executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission and the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development; or

(c) Apprenticeship training; and

(3) Full-time employment for a period of at least eight weeks during the months between regular school years, not to exceed forty hours per week.

B. Funds provided under this Chapter may be used:

(1) To pay up to one hundred percent of:

(a) The wages and benefits, and

(b) The costs of any employer-provided instruction and training of an eligible youth during the first six months of qualifying employment described in Subsection A; and

(2) To pay up to seventy-five percent of:

(a) The wages and benefits, and

(b) The costs of any employer-provided instruction and training of an eligible youth during any succeeding months of such qualifying employment.

C. Funds provided under this Chapter may not be used to pay any portion of the wages and benefits of any individual:

(1) For full-time employment during the months between the regular school year with a for-profit institution or organization unless such employment is a continuation of employment with that employer during the regular school year; or

(2) If the employer has failed to develop or to enforce attendance and performance standards consistent with the youth incentive plan provisions adopted under R.S. 23:1827(A)(4).

Acts 1986, No. 612, §1; Acts 1989, No. 834, §1; Acts 1992, No. 447, §1, eff. June 20, 1992; Acts 2008, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2008.