2006 Massachusetts Code - Chapter 151A — Section 71D. Reemployment assistance program.

Section 71D. Subject to appropriation, the director of workforce development, in coordination with the secretary and with any other appropriate agency, shall establish a reemployment assistance program to provide counseling, placement, training, and any other services deemed necessary, to employees terminated in plant closings and partial closings which will lead to the reemployment of said employees. Such services shall be provided either at a plant closing site, at local offices of the division of employment and training or at a site provided by any other appropriate agency. Said reemployment assistance program shall be administered by the director of labor and workforce development and the director of economic development through the industrial services program. Participation in said program when said program is available shall be a requirement for eligibility for reemployment assistance benefits established pursuant to section seventy-one F.