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Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2047-2048) Bill TextA bill to establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals, and for other purposes. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss and health care professional shortages.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Budgets, Business, Community health services, Dislocated workers, Education, Employee training, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Health policy, Higher education, Homeless, Housing, Indian education, Indian medical care, Job training, Labor, Layoffs, Manufacturing industries, Medical care, Medical education, Medical personnel, Medicine, Minorities, Occupational retraining, Paramedical personnel, Unemployment, Unemployment insurance, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Bill TextTo establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals, and for other purposes. 3/5/2007--Introduced. Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss and health care professional shortages.
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Latest Action: 09/26/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12134-12135) Bill TextA bill to amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to improve such Act. 7/16/2007--Introduced. FOREWARN Act of 2007 - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to to revise the terms "employer," "plant closing," and "mass layoff" for purposes of the Act. Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; and (2) notify the Secretary of Labor within 60 days of such closing or layoff (including the number of employees involved). Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to the employee for double the back pay (under current law, for back pay) for each day of the violation for up to 90 days (under current law, 60 days). Authorizes the Secretary to bring a civil action on behalf of one or more employees for certain relief under the [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Bill TextTo provide job creation and assistance, and for other purposes. 5/22/2007--Introduced. Rural America Job Assistance and Creation Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make matching grants to regional consortia meeting specified criteria to improve the job skills necessary for employment in specific industries. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to establish and support entities that provide business incubator services (necessary to initiate and sustain operations of a newly established business, including legal, intellectual property, and technology services and planning) for small- and medium-sized businesses. Directs the Comptroller General to study how rural infrastructure, venture capital, and federal programs can enhance rural areas. Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employer notification of federal and state elected officials (as well as local ones) before dislocation of workers. Amends the Immigration [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation. Bill TextTo amend title 49, United States Code, to exempt airports in economically depressed communities from matching grant obligations under the airport improvement program. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Amends the airport improvement program to provide that the federal share of costs for airport improvement projects at airports that are receiving subsidized small community air service and that are located in economically depressed communities shall be 100% (effectively exempting such airports from matching grant requirements under the program).
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Latest Action: 10/25/2007 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 110-410. Bill TextTo amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to minimize the adverse effects of employment dislocation, and for other purposes. 10/25/2007--Reported to House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to redefine the terms "employer," "plant closing," "mass layoff", and "employees" for purposes of the Act. Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees (including part-time employees) and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; (2) notify the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) of such closing or layoff; and (3) provide affected employees with information regarding benefits and services available to them, including unemployment compensation, trade adjustment assistance,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Employee rights, Employers' liability, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Job training, Labor, Law, Layoffs, Wage restitution
Latest Action: 10/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to improve such Act. 9/25/2007--Introduced. Forewarn Act of 2007 - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to redefine the terms "employer," "plant closing," and "mass layoff" for purposes of the Act to, among other things, make the Act applicable to employers of 50 or more employees (under current law, 100 employees). Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and government officials before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; and (2) give notice of such closing or layoff to the Secretary of Labor (including the number of employees), to U.S. and state Senators and Representatives who represent the area in which the plant is located, and to the Governor of the state in which the plant is located and to the chief elected official of the unit of local government within [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Communications, Congressional reporting requirements, Damages, Employee health benefits, Employee rights, Employers' liability, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Government information, Government paperwork, Government publications, Governmental investigations, Grievance procedures, Health insurance continuation, Health policy, Interest, Labor, Law, Layoffs, Medical care, Signs and signboards, Trade, Trade adjustment assistance, Unemployment insurance, Wage restitution
Latest Action: 10/25/2007 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 110-410. Bill TextTo amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to minimize the adverse effects of employment dislocation, and for other purposes. 10/25/2007--Reported to House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to redefine the terms "employer," "plant closing," "mass layoff", and "employees" for purposes of the Act. Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees (including part-time employees) and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; (2) notify the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) of such closing or layoff; and (3) provide affected employees with information regarding benefits and services available to them, including unemployment compensation, trade adjustment assistance,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Employee rights, Employers' liability, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Job training, Labor, Law, Layoffs, Wage restitution
Latest Action: 10/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to improve such Act. 9/25/2007--Introduced. Forewarn Act of 2007 - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to redefine the terms "employer," "plant closing," and "mass layoff" for purposes of the Act to, among other things, make the Act applicable to employers of 50 or more employees (under current law, 100 employees). Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and government officials before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; and (2) give notice of such closing or layoff to the Secretary of Labor (including the number of employees), to U.S. and state Senators and Representatives who represent the area in which the plant is located, and to the Governor of the state in which the plant is located and to the chief elected official of the unit of local government within [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Employee rights, Employers' liability, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Job training, Labor, Law, Layoffs, Wage restitution
Latest Action: 09/26/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12134-12135) Bill TextA bill to amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to improve such Act. 7/16/2007--Introduced. FOREWARN Act of 2007 - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to to revise the terms "employer," "plant closing," and "mass layoff" for purposes of the Act. Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; and (2) notify the Secretary of Labor within 60 days of such closing or layoff (including the number of employees involved). Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to the employee for double the back pay (under current law, for back pay) for each day of the violation for up to 90 days (under current law, 60 days). Authorizes the Secretary to bring a civil action on behalf of one or more employees for certain relief under the [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Admission of nonimmigrants, Advertising, Alien labor, Apprenticeship, Budgets, Business, Business education, Communications, Community colleges, Consumers, Curricula, Dislocated workers, Economic policy, Education, Employee training, Employment, Enterprise zones, Entrepreneurs, Federal-state relations, Government information, Government paperwork, Grants-in-aid, High technology, Higher education, Immigration, Income tax, Industry-university relations, Intellectual property, Internet, Job training, Labor, Labor unions, Law, Legal services, Marketing, Nonprofit organizations, Politics and government, Public-private partnerships, Regional planning, Severance pay, Small business, Social services, State and local government, State politics and government, Strategic planning, Tax credits, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Technical education, Technology, Vocational education, Wages
Latest Action: 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Bill TextTo provide job creation and assistance, and for other purposes. 5/22/2007--Introduced. Rural America Job Assistance and Creation Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make matching grants to regional consortia meeting specified criteria to improve the job skills necessary for employment in specific industries. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to establish and support entities that provide business incubator services (necessary to initiate and sustain operations of a newly established business, including legal, intellectual property, and technology services and planning) for small- and medium-sized businesses. Directs the Comptroller General to study how rural infrastructure, venture capital, and federal programs can enhance rural areas. Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employer notification of federal and state elected officials (as well as local ones) before dislocation of workers. Amends the Immigration [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Budgets, Business, Community health services, Dislocated workers, Education, Employee training, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Health policy, Higher education, Homeless, Housing, Indian education, Indian medical care, Job training, Labor, Layoffs, Manufacturing industries, Medical care, Medical education, Medical personnel, Medicine, Minorities, Occupational retraining, Paramedical personnel, Unemployment, Unemployment insurance, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Bill TextTo establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals, and for other purposes. 3/5/2007--Introduced. Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss and health care professional shortages.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Budgets, Business, Community health services, Dislocated workers, Education, Employee training, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Health policy, Higher education, Homeless, Housing, Indian education, Indian medical care, Job training, Labor, Layoffs, Manufacturing industries, Medical care, Medical education, Medical personnel, Medicine, Minorities, Occupational retraining, Paramedical personnel, Unemployment, Unemployment insurance, Welfare
Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2047-2048) Bill TextA bill to establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals, and for other purposes. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss and health care professional shortages.
Also tagged in: Airports, Armed forces, Budgets, Business, Defense contracts, Defense economics, Defense industries, Depressed areas, Disasters, Economic policy, Emergency management, Federal aid to transportation, Government contractors, Imports, Income, Infrastructure, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Internal migration, Labor, Layoffs, Military base closures, Natural resources, Public contracts, State and local government, Trade, Transportation, Unemployment
Latest Action: 01/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation. Bill TextTo amend title 49, United States Code, to exempt airports in economically depressed communities from matching grant obligations under the airport improvement program. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Amends the airport improvement program to provide that the federal share of costs for airport improvement projects at airports that are receiving subsidized small community air service and that are located in economically depressed communities shall be 100% (effectively exempting such airports from matching grant requirements under the program).
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