2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 24 - Labor
Chapter 19 - Youth Transitional Employment Program
§ 617. Payments to employers
(a) The Commissioner shall make quarterly payments to an employer participating in an approved program of employment under this act. Subject to Title 33, Chapter 111, section 3092 of this code, the amount paid to an employer on behalf of an enrollee for any period of time shall be 50 percent of the product of:
(1) the starting hourly rate of wages paid to the enrollee by the employer (without regard to overtime or premium pay); and
(2) the number of hours worked by the enrollee during that period.
(b) The maximum amount that may be paid to an employer on behalf of an enrollee participating in a program of transitional employment under this act is not more than $10,000.
(c) In order to relieve financial burdens on business enterprises with relatively few number of employees, the Commissioner may make payments under this act on a monthly, rather than quarterly, basis to an employer with a number of employees less than a number which shall be specified in regulations which the Commissioner shall prescribe for the purposes of this paragraph.
(d) Payment may not be made to an employer for a period of training under this act on behalf of an enrollee until the Commission has received—
(1) from the enrollee, a certification that the enrollee was employed full time by the employer in a program of transitional employment during such period; and
(2) from the employer, a certification—
(i) that the enrollee was employed by the employer; and
(ii) the number of hours worked by the enrollee during that period.
