2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 14 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment
Chapter 660 - Apprenticeship and Training; Workforce Development
Section 660.300 - Definitions for ORS 660.300 to 660.364.

As used in ORS 660.300 to 660.364:

(1) "Chief elected official" means a county commissioner, a county judge or the mayor of the City of Portland.

(2) "Federal Act" or "federal Workforce Investment Act" means the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (enacted as P.L. 105-220 and codified as 29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.).

(3) "Local workforce investment area" means the City of Portland or a county when the city or county has been designated as a local workforce investment area under ORS 660.324. "Local workforce investment area" may include two or more counties that have joined together to form a local workforce investment area and that have been designated as a local workforce investment area under ORS 660.324.

(4) "Local workforce investment board" means a board established pursuant to section 2832 of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

(5) "Office" means the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development.

(6) "Participant" means a person receiving services under Title I-B of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.).

(7) "Participant records" means records relating to matters such as grades, conduct, personal and academic evaluations, results of psychometric testing, counseling, disciplinary actions, if any, and other personal matters.

(8) "State workforce agencies" means state agencies that administer workforce programs.

(9) "Title I-B" means the adult, dislocated worker and youth programs delivered under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.).

(10) "Workforce development" means services designed to help individuals attain employment and progress along career pathways and to help businesses better achieve business goals by more easily finding skilled employees. "Workforce development" includes:

(a) Education, training and apprenticeship services;

(b) Labor market analysis;

(c) Employment and reemployment services;

(d) Employee recruitment and retention services; and

(e) Convening, coordinating, oversight and evaluation services for business and state workforce agencies.

(11) "Workforce programs" means programs that have a primary mission of helping individuals become employed, retain employment, increase wages and progress along career pathways and that are responsible for outcomes related to the primary mission.

[Formerly 285A.443; 2014 c.49 §2; 2015 c.366 §57]