Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 877 - Workforce Development Board and Workforce Development Center Administration Division › Chapter 8 - Placement › Rule 877-8.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in these rules, shall
				have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				otherwise:
"Affirmative action"
means a program or
				procedure intended to provide or foster employment opportunities for members of
				groups pursuant to legislation, court order, consent decree, government
				contracts or other fair employment practice authority.
"Alien "
means a foreign-born resident who has
				not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign
				country.
"CFR "
means Code of Federal
				Regulations.
"DOT"
means dictionary of occupational
				titles.
"Employer "
means a corporation, company,
				partnership, or organization that provides a job and pays wages for a salary to
				devote toward a particular activity.
"Farm labor contractor "
means any person who,
				for a fee, either for self or on behalf of another person, recruits, solicits,
				hires, furnishes, or transports migrant workers for agricultural
				employment.
"General provisions"
means items imposed by
				the United States federal government to be considered as part of the
				contract.
"Migrant"
means a seasonal farm worker whose
				farm work experience during the preceding 12 months required travel such that
				the worker was unable to return to such worker's residence (domicile) in the
				same day.
"Migrant food processing worker "
means a
				person who has had experience during the preceding 12 months doing food
				processing for a scheduled period of 150 days or less provided that it required
				travel such that the worker was unable to return to such worker's residence
				(domicile) in the same day.
"Monitor advocate"
means a position within the
				division of workforce development center administration established to monitor
				procedures to ensure compliance with Title 20, Code of Federal Regulations,
				Parts 653.111, 658.400 through 658.414 and 658.500 through 658.502.
"OJT"
means on-the-job training.
"Public service employer"
means a nonprofit
				organization or political jurisdiction or subdivision thereof.
"Questionable "
means one who has a previous
				history of physical or mental health problems.
"Re:"
means with
				regard to.
"Reverse referral system "
means an agreement
				between the division of workforce development center administration and an
				employer whereby the employer does not register walk-in employment seekers but
				refers them to the division of workforce development center administration
				where division employees perform the initial interviewing and preliminary
				personnel tasks. The names of those applicants who indicate an interest in
				working for a particular employer are placed in a file at the workforce
				development center. When an opening is listed for a particular employer, an
				interviewer employed by the department of workforce development reviews the
				applicants and those persons found to be best qualified are referred to the
				employer in a number specified by the employer. The interviewer determines
				compliance with the civil rights Act and other statutory requirements for job
				applicant referral.
"Seasonal farm worker"
means a person who has
				at least 25 days' experience during the preceding 12 months working for wages
				in farm work for a scheduled period of 150 consecutive days or less in any one
				establishment engaged in agricultural production or agricultural services.
				Nonmigrant individuals who are full-time students are excluded. For the purpose
				of this definition, an individual who is hired repeatedly on a short-term basis
				is a seasonal farm worker even if this results in such individual working for
				any one agricultural establishment for a period of 150 consecutive days or
				more.
"Select"
means designated and established by
				the division of workforce development center administration.
"Selection "
means the process of choosing
				suitably qualified applicants using the application form for referral to job
				openings in a number specified by the employer.
"State workforce development office staff"
means a person employed by a workforce development center of the division of
				workforce development center administration.
"Veteran"
means a person who served in the
				active military, naval, or air service and who was discharged or released
				therefrom with other than a dishonorable discharge.
"Waiver"
means the act of intentionally
				relinquishing or abandoning a known right, claim, or privilege or an instrument
				evidencing such act.
"Where appropriate "
means when the applicant
				has previously been a client.
This rule is intended to implement Code of Federal Regulations,
				Part V, Chapter 20, Section 604.1, dtd. November 2, 1976, and Iowa Code section
				96.10,
				96.11
				and
				96.19.