Alabama Administrative Code › Title 480 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter 480-1-1 - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION-EXECUTIVE DIVISION › Section 480-1-1-.09 - General Course And Method Of Operations

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Executive Office. Director: Administers
			 activities associated with the employment service, unemployment compensation,
			 child labor, workmen's compensation, mine safety, surface mine reclamation,
			 abandoned mine reclamation, and other programs for which the Department of
			 Industrial Relations is responsible. Exercises all functions and duties of the
			 Department acting by himself or by and through such administrative divisions or
			 such offices or employees as he may designate. Adopts and enforces all rules
			 and orders necessary or suitable to carrying out the functions of the
			 Department. Serves as Chief of the Division of Employment Security which
			 embraces employment service and unemployment compensation. Makes such
			 agreements as may be necessary or proper with the U. S. Department of Labor or
			 any other Federal, State or local agency, as well as businesses, organizations,
			 or private individuals. Maintains conformity to minimum standards of the U. S.
			 Department of Labor for the administration of the Unemployment Compensation Law
			 and employment service. Exercises, as provided by statute, all power and
			 authority necessary or convenient to carry out the functions and duties of the
			 Department. Assistant Director: Serves as advisor to the Director and performs
			 such administrative duties as may be assigned by the Director.
(2) Board of Appeals. Adjudicates
			 unemployment compensation and labor dispute appeals cases appealed to it from
			 lower authority decisions. Adopts rules relating to mine safety.
(3) Advisory Council. Aids the Director in
			 formulating policies. Performs other duties and functions as assigned by the
			 Director. Prepares recommendations as to administration and changes, amendments
			 or modifications of such acts and laws in the State of Alabama, in particular
			 the Unemployment Compensation Law, as it considers proper. Submits these
			 recommendations to the Governor and to the Legislature. Undertakes other
			 related activities on its own initiative.
(4) Board of Examiners. Examines qualified
			 applicants and grants certificates of competency to persons who pass the
			 required examinations to act as mine foreman and fire boss in mines under the
			 jurisdiction of this department. Formulates examination rules. Conducts
			 hearings relating to the cancellation or revocation of certificates.
(5) Veterans Employment and Training Service.
			 The Veterans Employment Service, with the State Employment Service as the
			 delivery agency, is charged by the Congress to carry out and fulfill statutory
			 requirements to insure an effective job and job training counseling service;
			 employment placement service; and a job training placement service program for
			 eligible veterans and eligible persons. To accomplish these objectives, a State
			 Director for Veterans' Employment and Training is assigned to the staff of the
			 Director and the State Employment Service Administrator as a consultant and
			 adviser on the implementation of the policies of the Secretary of Labor on the
			 provision of maximum employment and training opportunities to eligible veterans
			 through existing programs, coordination and merger of programs, and
			 implementation of new programs. National policies on veterans' employment,
			 training and placement programs are promulgated and administered by the
			 Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training.
(6) Programs. The program divisions:
			 Employment Security (employment service and unemployment compensation), State
			 Programs and Workmen's Compensation are responsible for administering one or
			 more, or portions thereof, of the programs for which the department is
			 responsible.
(a) Employment Security Division.
			 Coordinates assigned employment service and unemployment compensation
			 activities or portions thereof.
(1) Employment
			 Service. Administers assigned employment and training related programs or
			 portions thereof and such other programs or portions thereof as the Director of
			 Industrial Relations may from time to time determine appropriate. Staff level
			 components provide managerial and/or technical support to local offices
			 relative to the functions, programs, and activities administered.
			 Responsibilities generally include activities relating to: The basic labor
			 exchange program; the Alien Employment Certification program: the Federal
			 Bonding program; the Targeted Job Tax Credit program; employment and training
			 programs under the Job Training Partnership Act; services to veterans; the Work
			 Incentive program; the Trade Act of 1974; the Consolidated Farm and Rural
			 Development Loan program; and the Labor Market Information program.
(2) Unemployment Compensation. Administers
			 assigned unemployment compensation and related programs or portions thereof and
			 such other programs or portions thereof as the Director of Industrial Relations
			 may from time to time determine appropriate. Staff level components provide
			 managerial and/or technical support to local offices and/or central office
			 operating components relative to the functions, programs, and activities
			 administered. Responsibilities generally include activities relating to: The
			 regular state unemployment compensation programs; unemployment compensation for
			 exservicemen; unemployment compensation for former federal employees; the Trade
			 Adjustment Assistance program; the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program;
			 the Federal Supplemental Compensation program; the extended benefits program;
			 and various other federal programs.
(3) Local Offices. Generally serve as the
			 primary point of contact with the public for delivery of the Department's
			 services or obtaining information about the services.