Background

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and House Bill (H.B.) 470 require the One-Stop Operator in the local area and the Workforce Development Agency in the sub area to establish procedure to identify training providers for on-the-job training and customized training. The identification procedure will result in a State list of training providers who are eligible to give training services to customers using the one-stop delivery system.

One-Stop Operator and Workforce Development Agency: One-Stop Operators in the local area and Workforce Development Agencies in the sub area are responsible for setting the procedure to solicit and identify eligible training providers for on-the-job training and customized training. As part of the One-Stop Operator’s and Workforce Development Agency’s procedure, on-the-job training and customized training providers are required to collect, track and submit performance information as established by the State. These training providers are also required to meet performance level criteria as determined by the State to be considered identified as eligible providers of training services.

Collecting performance information as determined by the State, determining that these training providers meet the performance level criteria as required, disseminating the performance information throughout the one stop delivery system and submitting the approved list of these eligible training providers and information to the State are the responsibilities of the One-Stop Operators and Workforce Development Agencies.

On-the-Job Training and Customized Training Providers: To be identified as an eligible training provider, on-the-job training and customized training providers will follow the procedure established by the One-Stop Operator in the local area and the Workforce Development Agency in the sub area. These training providers will not use the State Eligible Training Provider Initial Application. These training providers are exempt from the eligible training provider procedure designed for training providers that will receive Workforce Investment Act customers through the Individual Training Account. On-the Job Training and Customized training providers may be procured through a contract.

On-the-job training is conducted with an employer who hires a WIA individual first and commits to retain the employee upon successful completion of the training. The employer is reimbursed up to 50 percent of the wage rate of the WIA individual for the extraordinary costs of providing training and additional supervision related to the training.

Customized training is designed to meet the special requirements of an employer or group of employers and conducted with a commitment by an employer or group of employers to employ a WIA individual upon successful completion of the training. The employer pays for not less than 50 percent of the cost of the training.

One-Stop Operator’s and Workforce Development Agency’s Procedure: The procedure, at a minimum, must include the following eligibility criteria:

• name of company and location

• description of the on-the-job training or customized training

• anticipated cost of program

• business category, e.g., sole proprietary, partnership, corporation, etc.

• training provider agrees to provide performance information

• training provider determined to be in "good standing" with federal and state organizations

• New Training Providers

• previous DBAs (doing business as) including previous location and dates of operation

• attestation that the training provider has not relocated leaving a loss of employment for any employee at the original location

• description of the on-the-job training or customized training

• anticipated cost of program

• business category, e.g., sole proprietary, partnership, corporation, etc.

• be determined to have been in "good standing" with federal and state organizations for any prior DBA

• training provider determined to be in "good standing" with federal and state organizations

• training provider agrees to provide performance information

One-Stop Operators and Workforce Development Agency may require additional eligibility requirements.

Program performance information and levels to meet will not be set by the State at this time. One-Stop Operators and Workforce Development Agencies, using local procedures, may require the collection of program performance information if they choose in order to identify eligible training providers and to establish a data baseline.

The One-Stop Operator and Workforce Development Agency is required to submit an eligible training provider list to the State within 30 calendar days after approving training contracts. The list of the eligible on-the-job training and customized training providers must contain the following information:

• name of company and location

• description of the on-the-job training or customized training

• anticipated cost of program

• business category, e.g., sole proprietary, partnership, corporation, etc.

The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services will accept the list from the One-Stop Operators and Workforce Development Agencies until June 30, 2000. The list must be sent to: The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, POWER*Ohio Division, 145 South Front Street, P. O. Box 1618, Columbus, OH 43216-1618.

On July 1, 2000 and thereafter, The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services will accept the list from the One-Stop Operators and Workforce Development Agencies. The list must be sent to: The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Bureau of Workforce Investment Act, 145 South Front Street, P. O. Box 1618, Columbus, OH 43216-1618.