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268.975 Definitions.

Subdivision 1. Terms. For the purposes of sections 268.975 to 268.98, the following terms have the meanings given them.

Subd. 2. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of economic security.

Subd. 3. Dislocated worker. "Dislocated worker" means an individual who is a resident of Minnesota at the time employment ceased or was working in the state at the time employment ceased and:

(1) has been terminated or who has received a notice of termination from public or private sector employment, is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to reemployment insurance, and is unlikely to return to the previous industry or occupation;

(2) has been terminated or has received a notice of termination of employment as a result of any plant closing or any substantial layoff at a plant, facility, or enterprise;

(3) has been long-term unemployed and has limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or a similar occupation in the area in which the individual resides, including older individuals who may have substantial barriers to employment by reason of age; or

(4) has been self-employed, including farmers and ranchers, and is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters, subject to rules to be adopted by the commissioner.

Subd. 3a. Additional dislocated worker. "Additional dislocated worker" means an individual who was a full-time homemaker for a substantial number of years and derived the substantial share of support from:

(1) a spouse and no longer receives such support due to the death, divorce, permanent disability of, or permanent separation from the spouse; or

(2) public assistance on account of dependents in the home and no longer receives such support.

An additional dislocated worker must have resided in Minnesota at the time the support ceased.

Subd. 4. Eligible organization. "Eligible organization" means a local government unit, nonprofit organization, community action agency, business organization or association, or labor organization.

Subd. 5. Local government unit. "Local government unit" means a statutory or home rule charter city, county, or town.

Subd. 6. Plant closing. "Plant closing" means the announced or actual permanent shutdown of a single site of employment, or one or more facilities or operating units within a single site of employment.

Subd. 7. Prefeasibility study grant. "Prefeasibility study grant" means the grant awarded under section 268.978.

Subd. 8. Substantial layoff. "Substantial layoff" means a permanent reduction in the work force, which is not a result of a plant closing, and which results in an employment loss at a single site of employment during any 30-day period for at least 50 employees excluding those employees that work less than 20 hours a week.

Subd. 9. Substate grantee. "Substate grantee" means the agency or organization designated to administer at the local level federal dislocated worker programs pursuant to the federal Job Training Partnership Act, United States Code, title 29, section 1501, et seq.

Subd. 10. Worker adjustment services. "Worker adjustment services" means the array of employment and training services designed to assist dislocated workers make the transition to new employment, including basic readjustment assistance, training assistance, and support services.

Subd. 11. Basic readjustment assistance. "Basic readjustment assistance" means employment transition services that include, but are not limited to: development of individual readjustment plans for participants; outreach and intake; early readjustment; job or career counseling; testing; orientation; assessment, including evaluation of educational attainment and participant interests and aptitudes; determination of occupational skills; provision of occupational information; job placement assistance; labor market information; job clubs; job search; job development; prelayoff assistance; relocation assistance; and programs conducted in cooperation with employers or labor organizations to provide early intervention in the event of plant closings or substantial layoffs.

Subd. 12. Training assistance. "Training assistance" means services that will enable a dislocated worker to become reemployed by retraining for a new occupation or industry, enhancing current skills, or relocating to employ existing skills. Training services include, but are not limited to: classroom training; occupational skill training; on-the-job training; out-of-area job search; relocation; basic and remedial education; literacy and English for training non-English speakers; entrepreneurial training; and other appropriate training activities directly related to appropriate employment opportunities in the local labor market.

Subd. 13. Support services. "Support services" means assistance provided to dislocated workers to enable their participation in an employment transition and training program. Services include, but are not limited to: family care assistance, including child care; commuting assistance; housing and rental assistance; counseling assistance, including personal and financial; health care; emergency health assistance; emergency financial assistance; work-related tools and clothing; and other appropriate support services that enable a person to participate in an employment and training program.

HIST: 1986 c 444; 1989 c 282 art 2 s 177; 1991 c 292 art 3 s 35,36; 1993 c 369 s 91-100; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1994 c 488 s 8

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