SECTIONS 9000-9004 - California Statutes

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CODE

SECTION 9000-9004

9000. The Legislature hereby makes the following declaration of
purpose and intent in enacting the Employment Development Act of
1973.
It is the public policy of the State of California to provide for
comprehensive statewide and local manpower planning, to improve the
efficiency of, and the accountability for, delivery systems for
manpower programs, to promptly place job-ready individuals in
suitable jobs, to provide qualified job applicants to employers, to
assist potentially employable individuals to become job ready, and to
create employment opportunities.

9001. In enacting the Employment Development Act of 1973, the
Legislature further finds and declares that it is essential to the
health and welfare of the people of this state that action be taken
by local, state and federal governments to effectively and
economically utilize public funds for job training and placement
services. To achieve this, it is necessary that:
(a) Explicit priorities be established for the allocation of these
funds to ensure that they are first used to assist those in greatest
need for job training and placement services;
(b) Definitive goals be established for the total system of job
training and placement services to maximize the effectiveness of the
system in assisting individuals to find and maintain gainful,
competitive employment;
(c) Efforts be made to enlist the full support of private industry
in securing jobs for enrollees of training programs, and a closer,
more integrated and coordinated effort be established with the
federal government as well as state and local public and private
agencies involved in performing job training and placement services;
and
(d) New approaches involving improved services and changes in
traditional organization structures be used to assist persons in
economically disadvantaged areas.
It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Legislature to
concentrate and account for the funds available for job training and
placement services in one state agency whose functions shall be
subject to periodic review by the Legislature and appropriate federal
agencies, and to which is assigned the responsibility for the
efficient administration of job training and placement services in
this state and the allocation of these funds to the end that such
funds will be more effectively utilized and will be directed
primarily to those areas of the state with the largest concentrations
of chronically unemployed persons.
It is the further intent of the Legislature (a) to maintain policy
control over all job training and placement programs administered by
the department pursuant to this part to the maximum extent feasible,
consistent with effective program operations, (b) to organize
existing job training and placement programs now operating in the
state into a coordinated system designed to remove employable persons
from dependency on public assistance, and to enlist the full support
of private industry in securing jobs, (c) to use funds for job
training and placement services in a flexible manner to provide
needed services for individuals through contractual arrangements with
public and private agencies, (d) to provide a unified system for
timely delivery of improved job training placement and related
services to eligible persons including individual case
responsibility, an outreach effort to seek out those persons who need
but do not apply for services, followup to insure that the needs of
eligible persons and their families are met, dissemination of
information and knowledge to residents of the economically
disadvantaged area about available services, and location of services
in areas readily accessible to those who need them, and (e) to
involve members of each community in identifying the needs to be met
and relating them to the services available in order to reduce the
isolation of the disadvantaged from their government and the
community as a whole and to improve their confidence in government at
all levels.

9002. Subject to the provisions of Sections 9600 and 9605, the
Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency shall coordinate all job
training placement, and related programs, conducted by state
agencies, with the federal government and ensure that there is no
duplication of the programs among state agencies and that all
agreements, contracts, plans, or programs conform to the provisions
of this part. Any plan proposed to be submitted by any agency to the
federal government in relation to a job training, placement, or
related program, shall first be submitted to the Secretary of the
Health and Welfare Agency for his or her review. The Health and
Welfare Agency may require state departments to contract with it for
services to carry out the provisions of this part.

9003. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code,
individuals with disabilities who are clients of the Department of
Rehabilitation shall not be barred as participants in manpower
programs, including, but not limited to, retraining programs, work
incentive programs, job training and placement programs, career
opportunity development programs, and vocational educational
programs, because of their mental or physical disability when
certified by the Department of Rehabilitation as being potentially
employable.

9004. Upon receipt of a formal ruling from the United States
Secretary of Labor, the United States Secretary of Health and Human
Services, or the head of any federal agency that any provision of
Chapter 1206 of the Statutes of 1973 or Chapter 1212 of the Statutes
of 1973 cannot be given effect without causing the state's plan to be
out of conformity with federal requirements or would result in
decertification of provisions of this code and notification of
intention to withdraw federal funds from the state, that provision
shall become inoperative to the extent that it is not in conformity
with federal requirements.