Fischer Files Amendment to Promote Entrepreneurship, Improve Job Training Performance Standards
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"To address unemployment in a meaningful way, legislation to extend unemployment insurance benefits should also include reforms that actually help men and women find good-paying jobs," said Fischer. "Providing job training centers with these standards will give more men and women access to tools they need to start their own businesses, which fuels economic growth and creates more jobs. I'm pleased to introduce this commonsense measure that helps unemployed Americans become successful entrepreneurs and strengthens job-training services. It is my hope that Majority Leader
Title I of the WIA authorizes entrepreneurial training as a training option at state unemployment centers. The funding each training center receives is based on that center's ability to help the unemployed obtain employment.
However, performance standards required by DOL do not track self-employment.
Because job training centers cannot "count" self-employed individuals as successfully employed, they have refrained from providing entrepreneurial training already authorized under the WIA.
Fischer's amendment requires DOL to establish self-employment performance measures within 60 days to eliminate this discrepancy discouraging job training centers from providing entrepreneurial training.
Having training recipients who start their own businesses submit documentation proving self-employment would allow job-training centers to count entrepreneurship as a "successful employment outcome."
Examples of documentation of self-employment include:
* A state license, or federal tax ID number
* Proof of income from business
* Federal or state tax filings for the business
Fischer's amendment is supported by the
Similar legislation was introduced by Rep.
Full text of Fischer's amendment is available HERE.http://www.fischer.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0df96fa5-6ae8-4b9a-a21a-8173c5b0e49e/4-1-2014-eti-act-of-2014.pdf
Additional Background:
DOL recognized the need to address the lack of self-employment performance standards in a 2010 Training and Guidance Letter (TEGL 12-10). The department suggested that job training centers experiment with alternative ways to provide entrepreneurial training.
Unfortunately, the TEGL did not offer streamlined guidance on how job training centers could count successful self-employment outcomes, leaving the performance issue in place.
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