Source: http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=83973
Timestamp: 2017-12-13 17:00:23
Document Index: 360127437

Matched Legal Cases: ['§76', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§2', '§1', '§2']

RS 23:76
§76. Forecasting
B.(1) The information on projected workforce growth shall include the number of individuals employed and the number of individuals able and available for employment at present and projected at a future date certain, both statewide and by geographic regions.
C.(1) For the purpose of projecting job growth and demand, the Occupational Forecasting Conference is hereby established as a committee of the council. The conference shall develop official information regarding the statewide and regional workforce development needs of current, new, and emerging industries as the council determines is necessary for both state and regional workforce development system planning processes and state planning and budgeting. The information, using quantitative and qualitative research methods, shall include at least short-term and long-term forecasts of employment demand for jobs by occupation and industry; entry and average wage forecasts for those occupations; and estimates of the supply of trained and qualified individuals available for employment in those occupations, with special focus upon those occupations and industries which require high skills and have high entry wages and previous experience wage levels. In the development of workforce estimates, the conference shall use, to the fullest extent possible, local occupational and workforce forecasts and estimates.
(2) The conference shall review data concerning the local and regional demands for short-term and long-term employment primarily in high-skills/high-wage jobs, as well as other jobs, which data is generated through surveys conducted as part of the state's Internet-based job matching and labor market information system. The conference shall consider such data in developing its forecasts for statewide employment demand, including reviewing the local and regional data for common trends and conditions among localities or regions which may warrant inclusion of a particular occupation on the statewide occupational forecasting list developed by the conference. Based upon its review of such survey data, the conference shall also make recommendations semiannually to the commission on additions or deletions to lists of locally targeted occupations.
Acts 1997, No. 1, §1, eff. April 30, 1997; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 70, §1, eff. May 1, 1998; Acts 2001, No. 782, §1; Acts 2004, No. 283, §1; Acts 2008, No. 743, §2, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2010, No. 5, §1; Acts 2015, No. 426, §2.