K.S.A. 44-775 Establishment of My Reemployment Plan; Duties of Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Commerce Related to the Provision of Reemployment Services; Annual Reports; Duties of Claimants

• Library: Kansas Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 Session Acts Chapter 108
• Year: 2023
• Citation: K.S.A. 44-775

(a)

(1) The secretary of labor and the secretary of commerce shall jointly establish and implement the my reemployment plan as provided in this section. For purposes of this section, "my reemployment plan" means a program jointly established and implemented by the Kansas department of labor and the Kansas department of commerce that provides enhanced reemployment services, including workforce services provided by the department of commerce, to Kansans receiving unemployment insurance benefits. The program shall be required for all claimants except claimants in the shared work program, trade adjustment assistance and trade readjustment assistance program, claimants on temporary layoff with a return-to-work date but such claimants shall only be excepted during any first 8 consecutive weeks of benefits, claimants that are currently employed, claimants that are current reemployment services and eligibility assessment participants, claimants that are active members in good standing of a placement union or claimants that are engaged in a training program. The program shall be implemented on or before June 1, 2021.

(2) The secretary of labor shall provide the secretary of commerce with the names and contact information of claimants that have claimed a third week of benefits in the current benefit year. The secretary of labor shall request the claimant to upload or create a complete resume in the Kansasworks workforce system, and complete a job search plan that includes a skills assessment component. The secretary of commerce shall offer and provide, when requested, assistance to the claimants in developing the documents or plan through collaboration by the secretary with the Kansasworks workforce system. The secretary of commerce may require claimants to participate in reemployment services. The claimant shall have 14 calendar days to respond to the secretary of commerce. The secretary of commerce shall report any failure to respond by the claimant to the secretary of labor.

(3) The secretary of labor shall share labor market information and current available job positions with the secretary of commerce. The secretary of labor may collaborate with Kansasworks or other state or federal agencies with job availability information in obtaining or sharing such information.

(4) The secretary of commerce shall match open job positions with claimants based on skills, work history and job location that is a reasonable commute from the claimant's residence and communicate the match information to the claimant and to the employer. The secretary of labor and the secretary of commerce shall consider whether the claimant or a Kansas employer would benefit from the claimant's participation in a work skills training or retraining program as provided by subsection (b) and, if so, provide such information to the employer, if applicable, and the claimant. Claimants who fail to respond within 14 calendar days after contact by Kansasworks or the department of commerce shall be reported by the secretary of commerce to the secretary of labor.