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NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-10.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-10.8 - Unlawful practice, violation.

34:15C-10.8 Unlawful practice, violation.  19. a. It shall be an unlawful practice and a violation of P.L.1960, c.39 (C.56:8-1 et seq.) for any private career school, person, or entity to collect on a student's institutional debt if the institutional financial aid agreement does not contain the language required under paragraph (3) of subsection c. of section 15 of P.L.2021, c.27 (C.34:15C-10.4). b. It shall be an unlawful practice and a violation of P.L.1960, c.39 (C.56:8-1 et seq.) for a private career school to collect on the institutional debt of a student who attended a program in which a disorderly closure occurred. L.2021, c.27, s.19.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-10.9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-10.9 - Rules, regulations.

34:15C-10.9 Rules, regulations.  20. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the purposes of sections 14 through 19 of P.L.2021, c.27 (C.34:15C-10.3 through C.34:15C-10.8). L.2021, c.27, s.20.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-12 - Preparation of annual budget for commission, funding.

34:15C-12 Preparation of annual budget for commission, funding.  15. a. The chairperson of the commission shall prepare an annual budget for the commission. Resources to support the activities of the commission and commission staff shall be contributed by each of the State's workforce investment system's partner State departments. Up to 15 percent of allowable State administrative funds from all federally supported and State-supported workforce investment programs may be used to support the commission. b. Funding for the commission and local Workforce Investment Boards shall be obtained from all workforce investment programs. Funding shall be established cooperatively by the departments who are partners to the workforce investment system. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the commission, shall set criteria and standards for any Workforce Investment Board administrators hired with these administrative resources. L.1989,c.293,s.15; amended 2005, c.354, s.16.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-13 - Rules, regulations

34:15C-13. Rules, regulations  The commission shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act. L.1989, c.293, s.16.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-15.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-15.1 - Workforce investment board to maintain Internet website, webpage; contents.

34:15C-15.1 Workforce investment board to maintain Internet website, webpage; contents.  2. Each Workforce Investment Board shall maintain either an Internet website or a webpage on the county's Internet website. The purpose of the website or webpage shall be to provide increased public access to the board's operations and activities. The following information, if applicable, shall be posted on the board's website or webpage: a. a description of the board's mission and responsibilities; b. the budget once adopted for the current and immediately prior fiscal years. Commencing with the fiscal year next following the effective date of P.L.2011, c.167 (C.4:24-20.1 et al.), the budgets of at least three consecutive fiscal years shall be available on the website or webpage; c. the most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report or similar financial information; d. the annual audit for the most recent and immediately prior fiscal years. Commencing with the fiscal year next following the effective date of P.L.2011, c.167 (C.4:24-20.1 et al.), the annual audits of at least three consecutive fiscal years shall be available on the website or webpage; e. the board's rules, regulations, and official policy statements deemed relevant by the board to the interests of the residents within the county; f. notice, posted pursuant to the "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.), of a meeting of the Workforce Investment Board, setting forth the time, date, location, and agenda of the meeting; g. the approved minutes including all resolutions of the board for each meeting of the Workforce Investment Board and its committees for the current fiscal year. Commencing with the fiscal year next following the effective date of P.L.2011, c.167 (C.4:24-20.1 et al.), the approved minutes of meetings for at least three consecutive fiscal years shall be available on the website or webpage; h. the name, mailing address, electronic mail address, if available, and phone number of every person who exercises day-to-day supervision or management over some or all of the operations of the Workforce Investment Board; and i. a list of attorneys, advisors, consultants, and any other person, firm, business, partnership, corporation, or other organization which received any remuneration of $17,500 or more during the preceding fiscal year for any service whatsoever rendered to the Workforce Investment Board. L.2011, c.167, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-17 - Findings, declarations relative to adult literacy.

34:15C-17 Findings, declarations relative to adult literacy.  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Education affects an individual's employability, wages, productivity, ability to function effectively in the family and community, and ultimately, it affects the State's economic well-being; b. Low literacy skills rob individuals of their future and undermine the economy of the State; c. Almost one-half of New Jersey's adults function at the lowest levels of literacy as defined by the National Adult Literacy Survey; d. Low literacy levels are related to crime, unemployment and underemployment, public assistance, and many other social problems on which the State invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year; e. A literate population is a precondition for solving many of society's ills; and f. Developing a solid, well-coordinated literacy delivery system will enhance the chances of adults' success in the labor market and in society as a whole. L.1999,c.107,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-19 - Purpose of council.

34:15C-19 Purpose of council.  3. The purpose of the council shall be to facilitate Statewide and local policy development, planning and oversight in consultation with the stakeholders in the area of adult literacy education. The responsibilities of the council shall include, but not be limited to: a. developing a broad-based Statewide master plan, which integrates and coordinates all adult literacy programs. At a minimum, the plan shall address service delivery, consolidation and coordination, funding and accountability, staff development and training, technology and advocacy. The plan shall include a proposal to consolidate the State supported literacy programs; b. facilitating State planning and local planning through Workforce Investment Boards and among service providers to assure concurrence with the State master plan for adult literacy education, developed by the council pursuant to subsection a. of this section; c. reviewing federal and State legislation, and developing and modifying literacy plans accordingly; d. developing appropriate performance standards and impact measures and Statewide benchmarks to measure the entire system and programs of adult literacy services; e. developing a Statewide strategy to facilitate and improve professional development and information sharing for practitioners and policy makers and to promote the availability of services to learners, employers, and service providers; f. improving communication among federal, State, and local literacy initiatives; g. recommending strategies to broaden adult literacy efforts so that literacy levels of the entire family are improved; and h. working with public and private sector organizations to develop strategies to publicize the problem of low-literate populations as well as the services available to address this problem. L.1999,c.107,s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-20 - Annual report to Governor, Legislature.

34:15C-20 Annual report to Governor, Legislature.  4. The council shall report annually to the Governor and the Legislature. The annual report shall include, but not be limited to, the accomplishments and initiatives of the reporting period. The first annual report shall also include the State master plan developed pursuant to subsection a. of section 3 of this act. L.1999,c.107,s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-21 - Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education.

34:15C-21 Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education.  1. a. There is created, in the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission, a council which shall be known as the Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education. b. The council shall consist of 16 members who are individuals with experience in the fields of labor, education, training, or gender equity. The 16 members shall include: six members appointed by the Director of the Division on Women; six members appointed by the Executive Director of the State Employment and Training Commission; and four members who shall serve ex officio, one of whom shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Children and Families, one by the Commissioner of Education, one by the Commissioner of Human Services, and one by the Executive Director of the Commission on Higher Education. Not more than half of the members appointed by the Director of the Division on Women and not more than half of the members appointed by the Executive Director of the State Employment and Training Commission shall be of the same political party. The members appointed by the director and executive director shall serve for terms of three years, except that of the eight members first appointed by the director and the executive director, four shall be appointed for three years, two shall be appointed for two years, and two shall be appointed for one year. Each member shall hold office for the term of appointment and until his successor is appointed and qualified. A member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring in the membership of the council for any reason other than the expiration of the term shall have a term of appointment for the unexpired term only. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. A member may be appointed for any number of successive terms. Any member appointed by the director or the executive director may be removed from the council by the director or the executive director, as the case may be, for cause, after a hearing and may be suspended by the director or the executive director pending the completion of the hearing. c. Members of the council shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as members. Action may be taken and motions and resolutions may be adopted by the council at a council meeting by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members. The council shall elect from its members a chairperson who shall be a nongovernmental member of the council. Advanced notification for, and copies of the minutes of, each meeting of the council shall be filed with the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the General Assembly. L.1999, c.223, s.1; amended 2005, c.354, s.19; 2012, c.16, s.129.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-22 - Duties of council.

34:15C-22 Duties of council.  2. The Council shall: a. Assess the effectiveness of State programs designed to provide gender equity in labor, education, and training; b. Make recommendations to the Commissioners of Children and Families, Education, Human Services, and Labor and Workforce Development, and the Secretary of Higher Education regarding the needs, priorities, programs, and policies related to access and equity for labor, education, and workforce training throughout the State; c. Review current and proposed legislation and regulations pertaining to gender equity in labor, education, and workforce training and make recommendations regarding possible legislation and regulations to the State Employment and Training Commission and the Division on Women; d. Develop policies to insure that State agencies set benchmarks and integrate their data collection systems to assess progress toward achieving gender equity and take action to insure that appropriate data collection systems exist where needed; e. Develop policies to promote linkages among individuals, schools, organizations, and public agencies providing gender equity services and programs; f. Educate and provide information to the public on the issues and current developments in gender equity by issuing reports and holding events such as conferences and symposia; g. Submit an annual report to the Governor, the Legislature, the State Employment and Training Commission, and the Division on Women of its assessments and recommendations made pursuant to this section; h. Conduct studies and promote research, as practicable, to develop the means to correct gender inequitable practices, including practices leading to pay disparities between men and women and publish and otherwise make available to employers, labor organizations, professional associations, educational institutions, the media, and the general public the findings resulting from these studies and other materials; i. Develop and make available information, as practicable, regarding best practices for workplace gender equity to enable employers to evaluate job categories based on objective criteria, such as educational requirements, skill requirements, independence, working conditions, and responsibility; and j. Establish a Statewide recognition of exceptional practices, as practicable, to promote gender equity in the workplace to be presented to a workplace, as shall be defined by the Council, that, at a minimum, has demonstrated it has made a substantial effort to eliminate pay disparities between men and women, and thus deserves special recognition, in addition to any other requirements and specifications the Council deems appropriate in the determination of the workplace to be recognized. L.1999, c.223, s.2; amended 2011, c.186, s.1; 2012, c.16, s.130.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15C-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15C-23 - Authority of council.

34:15C-23 Authority of council.  3. The council is authorized to: a. Hold public hearings; b. Employ staff, responsible to the Executive Director of the State Employment and Training Commission, to assist the council to implement the purposes of this act; and c. Avail itself of the services of the employees and have access to the records of any instrumentality of the State, as necessary or useful to implement the purposes of this act. L.1999,c.223,s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15D-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15D-1 - Short title

34:15D-1. Short title  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "1992 New Jersey Employment and Workforce Development Act."  L.1992,c.43,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15D-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15D-2 - Findings, declarations

34:15D-2. Findings, declarations  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. New Jersey, facing an intensely competitive world economy, must choose whether to compete against countries that have low-paid, unskilled workforces or to compete for the high-productivity jobs that can provide a foundation for an economic leadership position for New Jersey and high living standards for all of its citizens;  b. If New Jersey is going to take the high-skill, high-productivity, high-wage path, it will need a genuine partnership between business, labor and government to invest in the first-rate training and education for front-line workers needed to stimulate greater worker involvement in promoting innovation, quality control and responsiveness to rapid technological advances in production;  c. Current private sector efforts to train and educate employees in New Jersey are extensive, involving the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars, but the overwhelming majority of those expenditures goes to the minority of employees, usually placed in management, scientific and technical positions, who already have college degrees;  d. The inadequate emphasis on training and ongoing education for the broad majority of front-line workers is further compounded by the fact that 90% of job training expenditures by American businesses is spent by only one half of one percent of American businesses;  e. Although current training programs for the long-term jobless and other disadvantaged individuals have increased skilled labor resources in the State, and although federal funding for those programs is inadequate to cover more than a small minority of those eligible, there is an even greater need for new public resources to upgrade the skills of vastly larger numbers of currently employed, or recently displaced, mainstream front-line workers;  f. Proposals have been made by the administrations of both Governor Kean and Governor Florio to redirect existing payroll taxes to fund a broader and more in-depth program of worker training and access to lifelong education, a method successfully employed by other States and by leading international industrial competitors, such as Germany, Japan and France;  g. The potential contribution of business-labor cooperation to create a highly productive workforce has also been demonstrated, domestically and overseas, by the effectiveness of apprenticeship programs in certain skilled trades;  h. It is therefore an appropriate public purpose to sustain the current level of support of training programs for disadvantaged individuals and to establish, with the active participation of New Jersey's business and labor communities, a broader program of expanded, high-quality training and education, including needed basic skills education, for currently employed and recently displaced front-line workers, funded by the redirection of a portion of existing payroll taxes.  L.1992,c.43,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15D-5.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15D-5.1 - Findings, declarations relative to under-represented participants in apprenticeships.

34:15D-5.1 Findings, declarations relative to under-represented participants in apprenticeships.  1. The Legislature finds and declares that women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are under-represented in the skilled trades and apprenticeship programs, despite the fact that these groups represent a large and growing portion of the workforce. As apprenticeship programs often lead to high paying jobs in growing industries, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities should be provided better access and support in benefitting from them.  Although apprenticeships can benefit these groups, sometimes women, minorities, and persons with disabilities begin the programs, but leave before completion. One reason for this may be that the groups are under-represented. When they encounter harassment and discrimination or other difficulties, they may not have a trusted support network on which they can depend.  For example, while all participants in federally-registered apprenticeship programs are required to receive a mentor, it is unlikely that the mentor would come from the same under-represented group as the participant. Participants who are not from under-represented groups would not face this dilemma. It is therefore an appropriate public purpose to begin, in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, a peer-to-peer mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. L.2020, c.58, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15D-5.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15D-5.2 - Establishment of peer-to-peer Statewide apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

34:15D-5.2 Establishment of peer-to-peer Statewide apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.  2. a. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education and the Chief Diversity Officer of New Jersey, shall establish a peer-to-peer Statewide apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. The purpose of the mentoring program is to provide mentoring and support services to women, minorities, and persons with disabilities throughout the State, as well as to establish a network of peers involved in apprenticeship groups among those groups. b. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall analyze which groups of people are under-represented in industries throughout the State, and then form employee resource groups for apprentices involved in those industries. L.2020, c.58, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15D-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15D-10 - Commissioner's duties

34:15D-10. Commissioner's duties  10. The commissioner shall, in a manner which complies with all provisions of this act:  a. Implement performance measurements for the program consistent with the provisions of section 8 of this act and with the criteria and procedures established by the State Employment and Training Commission pursuant to section 13 of this act;  b. Establish minimum standards for consideration of proposals from applicants for customized training services;  c. Establish review and approval procedures for training grant applications from qualified displaced and disadvantaged workers; and  d. Ensure the provision of adequate fiscal accounting controls for the monitoring and auditing of training grants and customized training services provided pursuant to this act.  L.1992,c.43,s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15D-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15D-11 - Rules, regulations

34:15D-11. Rules, regulations  11. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations necessary to govern the proper conduct and operation of the program consistent with the provisions of this act. These rules and regulations may include guidelines in addition to, but not inconsistent with, those provided by this act regarding:  a. Contracts between applicants for customized training services, the program, service providers or any combination of the three;  b. The issuance of training grants to qualified displaced and disadvantaged workers;  c. Eligibility and priority of employment and training services to employers and qualified displaced, disadvantaged and employed workers; and  d. Qualifications of instruction, facilities, financial responsibility, business practices, and any other matter essential to the maintenance of the adequacy of employment and training services.  L.1992,c.43,s.11.