[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 72 (Friday, April 14, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 18993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9277]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
20 CFR Part 638
Job Corps: Allowances and Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: Job Corps is amending its regulations on student allowances
and allotments. The objectives are: to increase the length of
enrollment requirements for readjustment allowance eligibility, in
order to encourage students to lengthen their enrollment and maximize
Job Corps offerings and benefits; and to amend the allotment section to
coincide with revisions in readjustment allowance accrual.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 15, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dana Davidson Johnson, Office of Job
Corps, Division of Program Management and Review. Telephone: (202) 219-
6568 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Job Corps is implementing a new pay and
allotment system which will provide students with enough money to meet
their basic needs, while adding greater incentives than are available
in the current system to encourage student retention, performance,
program completion, and length of enrollment. The rule enables the Job
Corps Director to increase the number of paid days for eligibility for
readjustment allowances. This will encourage students to stay in the
program longer. Students thus can be better prepared for employment,
particularly because this added time will encourage students to acquire
social skills along with vocational and academic training.
Payroll will be conducted on a biweekly schedule versus the current
twice-monthly procedure. The rule ties into the implementation of the
new Student Pay, Allowance and Management Information System (SPAMIS)
utilized by Job Corps. The new pay system will be much more responsive
than the current system, with individual student pay levels and leave
status maintained on a current basis and status changes made by the Job
Corps Centers as they occur. The rule allows the accrual of
readjustment allowances to be set for each paid day and allotments to
be processed on a biweekly basis.
This was published as a proposed rule, with a request for comments,
on November 1, 1994, 59 FR 54539-54540. Only one comment was received
in response to the proposed rule--the Georgia Department of Labor
encourages Job Corps to promulgate the rule in final as proposed. The
Department of Labor agrees and in this document is doing so.
This rule applies only to allowances and allotments for Job Corps
students. The rule is not classified as a ``significant regulatory
action'' under Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and
Review''. It does not (1) materially alter the budgetary impact of
entitlements or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof; or
(2) raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal mandates in
the President's priorities. It is not likely (3) to result in having an
annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; or (4) to create
a serious inconsistency or interfere with action taken or planned by
another agency. As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the
Department of Labor at the time the proposed rule was published,
notified the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration,
and made the certification pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 605(b) that this rule
will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of
small entities.
List of Subjects in 20 CFR Part 638
Contract programs, Labor, Training and employment programs.
Final Rule
Accordingly, 20 CFR part 638 is amended as follows:
1. The authority for part 638 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 29 U.S.C. 1579(a).
2. In Sec. 638.524, paragraphs (b) and (c) are revised to read as
follows:
Sec. 638.524 Allowances and allotments.
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(b) The Job Corps Director shall ensure that each student receives
a readjustment allowance for each paid day of satisfactory
participation in Job Corps after termination from the program if he/she
terminates after 210 days in pay status or after 180 days if he/she is
a maximum benefits or vocational completer. In the event that a student
receives a medical termination, he/she shall be eligible for the
accrued readjustment allowance, regardless of length of stay or other
considerations. See also paragraph (d) of this section. (Section
429(c)).
(c) The Job Corps Director shall establish procedures to allow
students to authorize deductions from their readjustment allowance,
which shall be matched by an equal amount from Job Corps funds and sent
biweekly as an allotment by the SPAMIS Data Center to the student's
spouse, child(ren) or other dependent, if such spouse, child(ren) or
other dependent resides in any State in the United States.
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Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of April 1995.
Robert B. Reich,
Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 95-9277 Filed 4-13-95; 8:45 am]
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