E Relating to employment ARTICLE 1 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Providing for the administration of workforce development programs; designating the job skills partnership board as the lead agency for workforce policy and program development and coordination; increasing and modifying the membership of the board; requiring the chair of the board to be the chair of the governor's workforce development council; authorizing the board to hire an executive director and staff to carry out duties; requiring exclusive offices and authorizing contracting with the department of trade and economic development (DTED) for administrative services; requiring the executive director to administer and coordinate state workforce development activities; requiring the board by a certain date to develop performance standards for workforce development and job training programs receiving state funding, authorizing a contract with a consultant to develop the standards and specifying certain minimum standards requirements; requiring the board to annually submit recommendations to the legislature relating to modifications to or elimination of existing workforce development programs and the potential implementation of new programs; providing for allocation of workforce development funds to the job skills partnership board; requiring the commissioner of economic security to notify certain unemployment insurance applicants of the opportunity for employment and training services through workforce centers; creating an executive committee of the workforce development council, specifying membership requirements; requiring the committee to develop performance standards for the state workforce centers, to annually report to the legislature on the performance and outcomes of the centers and to develop a strategic plan for the appropriate placement and number of workforce centers within the state, specifying certain plan requirements; requiring local workforce centers to establish an advanced reemployment program to monitor and contact underemployed individuals for notice of advanced placement and training opportunities; requiring the job skills partnership board to pilot the use of funds to pay for training in partnership training programs on behalf of eligible low income individuals, requiring grants to eligible employment services; appropriating money to the job skills partnership and to the workforce development council to develop workforce centers performance standards and a strategic plan ARTICLE 2 STATE AGENCY RESTRUCTURINGAbolishing the departments of labor and industry and economic security; renaming the department of trade and economic development (DTED) the department of economic and workforce development and creating a new department of employment services; transferring the responsibilities of the workforce services unit of the department of economic security to the department of economic and workforce development, the responsibilities of the workforce rehabilitation services unit to the department of employment services, the responsibility of the workforce assistance unit relating to unemployment insurance collection to the department of revenue and the responsibility for energy programs to the department of commerce; transferring the responsibility of the department of labor and industry for apprenticeship programs to the department of economic and workforce development, the responsibilities of the workers compensation division to the department of employment services and the responsibilities of the workplace services division to the department of commerce; providing for the organization of the department of economic and workforce development, creating a division of economic development consisting of business and community development, the Minnesota trade office, the tourism and information and analysis divisions and administrative support; requiring housing of the job skills partnership program with a policy, research and evaluation unit in the department and providing for a workforce transition services unit; creating a reorganization transition team to make certain recommendations to the governor and the legislature by a certain date relating to implementation, specifying certain team membership requirements ARTICLE 3 RESULTS ORIENTED TRAINING GRANTSProviding for job training program grants to employers for placement and retention fees, specifying certain limits; providing for issuance by the commissioner of trade and economic development (DTED) of credit certificates for certain qualified job training programs operated by certain nonprofit corporations, specifying certain program requirements and an asset limit; specifying certain employer grant application requirements and appropriating money to the commissioner for the grants (mk, ja)