WAGNERPEYSER 101

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WAGNER-PEYSER 101

• Everything you always wanted to know about W-P

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HISTORY

• Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 created the nationwide
  public employment service
• Social Security Act of 1935 created Unemployment
  Compensation and UI tax
• Early years, ES was a labor exchange and a
  clearinghouse for public service jobs

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HISTORY

• WWII-ES mobilized the nations defense industry
• 1960s-emphasized training and the upgrading of
  applicants skills-Manpower Development and
  Training Act of 1962

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HISTORY

• 1980s-promoted the labor exchange concept,
  emphasizing general placement activity and
  employer services

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HISTORY

• 1990s, the Wagner-Peyser funded public labor
  exchange became a core component of the new
  Workforce Development System
• JIS

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HISTORY

• 2000 WP became the universal access component
  of the One-Stop Career System
• 2004 OSMIS WP
• 2005 EFM
• 2007 EFM roll-out

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FUNDING

• FUTA Tax
• Wagner-Peyser 7(a) and 7 (b)
• 7(a) PY 2008 grant 32,835,957
• 7(b) PY 2008 3,648,440

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BASIC PURPOSE

• The basic purpose of the employment service
  system is to improve the functioning of the
  nations labor markets by bringing together
  individuals who are seeking employment and
  employers who are seeking workers. (20 CFR.652.2)

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Federal Regulations requires that Employment
Security Offices (One-Stop Career Centers) have
the capacity

• To assist job seekers in finding employment
• To assist employers in filling jobs
• To facilitate the match between job seekers and
  employers
• To participate in a system for clearing between
  the states
• To meet the work test requirements of the state
  Unemployment Compensation system. (20 CFR
  652.3).

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Program Operations-Job Seeker

• REGISTRATION/APPLICATION
• PARTICIPATION/EXIT
• SERVICES TO UC CLAIMANTS
• ENTERED EMPLOYMENT
• PLACEMENTS

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REGISTRATIONS

• It is necessary to the extent possible, that all
  job seekers that are authorized to work in the
  United States be registered in the W-P reporting
  system.
• Job seekers may be registered upon contacting the
  labor exchange through the One-Stop delivery
  system or as required by State law or policy.
• Job seekers receiving staff-assisted-services
  funded under the Wagner-Peyser Act must be
  registered in the Wagner-Peyser reporting system.
  
• Job seekers who use self-services or facilitated
  self-help services also may be registered, but
  this is not required.

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A Wagner-Peyser Participant

• Determined eligible to participate in the
  Wagner-Peyser Program
• Receives a service funded by the program in a
  physical location (e.g., a One-Stop center) or
  receives a service electronically

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Definition of Program Exit

• Participant does not receive a service funded by
  the W-P Program or a partner program for 90
  consecutive calendar days (Federal definition)
• Actual exit date is the date of the last service
  provided

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Entering Data

• Job seeker services are to be entered in EFM at
  the time they are provided.
• EFM does not allow backdating of services beyond
  15 days.
• Multiple services can be provided to job seekers
  on a daily basis.
• However, only one service of each type may be
  added during a one-day period.

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SERVICES TO UC CLAIMANTS

• Priority Reemployment Planning (PREP)
• Orientation Assessment required
• Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment Project
  (REA)
• Assessment, Employability Development Plan, Labor
  Market Info, Job Search, and Referral to Training
  when appropriate

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PREP
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PREP
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REA
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ENTERED EMPLOYMENT

• A job seeker (not employed) who receives a
  workforce service and then has no service for 90
  consecutive calendar days becomes an exiter as of
  the date of last service.
• If a match is found with UI wage data in the
  quarter following the exit quarter, credit is
  given for an Entered Employment.
• Federal Long-Term Measure/Balanced Scorecard
  (Common Measures)

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ENTERED EMPLOYMENT

• Entered employment credit is attributed to the
  One-Stop Center entering the workforce service
  which commences participation for staff-assisted
  services and to the office of record for the
  participant if self-service.

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Placement Definition

• Federal definition 20 CFR 651.10
• Placement means the hiring by a public or
  private employer of an individual referred by the
  One-Stop Centers for a job or for an interview,
  provided that the employment office completed all
  of the following steps

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Placement Definition

• Prepared a job order form (in EFM) prior to
  referral, except in case of job development.

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Placement Definition

• Made prior arrangements with the employer for the
  referral of an individual(s).

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Placement Definition

• Referred an individual who had not been
  specifically designated by the employer, except
  referrals on agricultural job orders for a
  specific crew leader or worker.

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Placement Definition

• Verified from a reliable source, preferably the
  employer, that the individual had started to
  work.

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Placement Definition

• Appropriately recorded the placement.

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Placement Credit

• Placement credit is attributed to the region
  which entered the service that commenced
  participation on short term measure (MMR).

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JOB ORDERS

• State policy dictates that all job orders and
  openings are to be listed in the Wagner-Peyser
  reporting system and therefore reported to USDOL.
  AWI FG 03-035-March 4, 2003 Wagner-Peyser ((W-P)
  Job seeker Registration and Employer Services
  Procedures.
• (View Job Orders Presentation)

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WAGNER-PEYSER COMPLAINT SYSTEM

• Each full-service One-Stop Center takes
  complaints.
• (View Wagner-Peyser Complaint System
  presentation)

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MORE INFORMATION

• JOAN LOSIEWICZ
• [phone]
• email Joan.Losiewicz_at_flaawi.com
• KEN MCDONALD(850)245-7412
• email Ken.McDonald_at_flaawi.com