Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/1405

 PUBLIC LAW 97-300—OCT. 13, 1982

96 STAT. 1363

paragraph may be waived in accordance with criteria established in the job training plan; and (C) are enrolled in a secondary school or an institution offering a certified high school equivalency program and are meeting or have met the minimum academic and attendance requirements of that school or education program during the current or most recent term, with priority given to youth who do not plan to continue on to postsecondary education. (2) Entry employment experiences may be up to 20 hours weekly during the school year or full time during the summer and holidays, for a total of not to exceed 500 hours of entry employment experience for any individual. Such experiences shall be appropriately supervised, including the maintenance of standards of attendance and worksite performance. (3) Entry employment experiences may be one of the following types: (A) Full-time employment opportunities in public and private nonprofit agencies during the summer and on a part-time basis in combination with education and training activities. These jobs shall provide community improvement services that complement local expenditures. (B) Tryout employment at private for-profit worksites, or at public and private nonprofit worksites when private for-profit worksites are not available. Compensation in lieu of wages for tryout employment shall be paid by the grant recipient, but the length of any assignment to a tryout employment position shall not exceed 250 hours. Tryout employment positions shall be ones for which participants would not usually be hired Obecause of lack of experience or other barriers to employment), and vacancies in such positions may not be refilled if the previous participant completed the tryout emplo5mfient but was not hired by the employer. (C) Cooperative education programs to coordinate educational programs with work in the private sector. (e)(1) The job training plan may provide for the conduct of a "school-to-work transition assistance program" for youth who are— (A) high school seniors who plan to enter the full-time labor market upon graduation, with priority to seniors in high schools having a predominance of students from families with incomes below 70 percent of the lower living standard income level; and (B) dropouts, with followup as immediately as possible after leaving school. (2) Transition services include— (A) provision of occupational information; (B) short-duration job search assistance; (C) job clubs; (D) placement and job development; and (E) followup. (3) Seniors and dropouts who are eligible for and in need of training activities may be provided information and, where appropriate, referred to— (A) premployment skills training, entry employment experience, and remedial education; (B) adult training activities; and (C) the Job Corps.

Entry employment experiences.

School-to-work transition assistance program.

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