336.045 Administration and supervision of state employment offices
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Regional free public offices -- Wagner-Peyser Act.
(1)The Education and Labor Cabinet shall administer and supervise state
employment offices and perform any other duties within the Act of Congress
entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Employment
Service and for Cooperation with the State in the Promotion of Such System
and for Other Purposes," approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat. 113, U.S.C., Title
29, sec. 49(c)), as amended, and known as the Wagner-Peyser Act. All duties
and powers relating to the establishment, maintenance, and operation of free
public employment offices are vested in the Education and Labor Cabinet,
except that on or before April 15, 2021, there shall be twelve
(12)regional
full-time free public employment offices open, fully operational, and staffed by
properly trained unemployment insurance specialists in each of the regions
where the secretary has determined there is an average unemployment rate
above five percent (5%) for the preceding six
(6)month period ending either on
June 30 or December 31. The Education and Labor Cabinet may, at its
discretion, open and operate additional free public employment satellite offices
on a full or partial schedule.
(2)The provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, are accepted by this
state in conformity with Section 4 of that Act, and this state will observe and
comply with the requirements of that Act. The Education and Labor Cabinet is
designated and constituted the agency of this state for the purposes of the
Wagner-Peyser Act.