2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 23 - Labor and Worker's Compensation
RS 23:1803 - Administration

§1803. Administration

A. The Louisiana Workforce Commission shall be the exclusive agency administering this Chapter; however, the federal work incentive program shall be administered by the Louisiana Workforce Commission and the office of family services as provided by federal laws, regulation and guidelines.

B. The Louisiana Workforce Commission shall require each person who receives unemployment insurance benefits in accordance with R.S. 23:1471 et seq., to register for and to participate in the work opportunity program developed by the commission as a condition for eligibility for continued receipt of such benefits, except that the commission may follow federal regulations in electing to defer participation of certain claimants.

C. The office of family services and the Louisiana Workforce Commission jointly shall develop a uniform procedure for informing, explaining, and implementing the provisions of the work opportunity program and the consequences of refusal by any eligible person to participate in the program. Each person ineligible or exempt from participation in the program by law shall be informed that he may voluntarily participate in the program.

D. The Louisiana Workforce Commission shall have the authority to contract in order to utilize, whenever possible, the programs of the vocational-technical schools and trade schools operated by the state, the colleges and universities operated by the state, and the apprenticeship programs and job training programs operated within this state by private organizations, for the purpose of completing the job improvement and employment training programs, the institutional and work experience programs, the public service employment programs, and the work opportunity programs authorized herein.

E. The vocational-technical schools operated by the state of Louisiana may reserve for the enrollment of participants, defined in R.S. 23:1802(1), a certain number of positions in each class taught in each public vocational-technical school. Each participant may voluntarily apply to a vocational-technical school for enrollment. The positions in each class reserved for participants shall be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Any participant enrolled in a vocational-technical school pursuant to this Section and Section 1602(2) and participating satisfactorily is exempt from the other provisions of this Chapter.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 512, §1, eff. July 12, 1978; Acts 1997, No. 1172, §4, eff. June 30, 1997; Acts 2008, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2008.