Section 2865.150 Profiling/Referral to Reemployment Services

Section 2865

Section 2865.150

Profiling/Referral to Reemployment Services

a)         To determine the likelihood that the individual will exhaust

regular benefits and will need job search assistance, the Department will

profile each individual who files an initial claim for regular benefits.  Each

claimant profile will be based on information contained in the claimant's

initial combined application for regular benefits and Employment Service

registration.

1)         Except as otherwise provided in subsection (a)(2), as part of

the profiling process, the Department will assign each individual an exhaustion

probability score that measures the likelihood that the individual will exhaust

regular benefits and need job search assistance.  The score will be calculated

according to a statistical model developed by the Department based on criteria

approved by the US Department of Labor, including industry or occupation.

2)         No exhaustion probability score will be assigned an individual

if he or she:

A)        has not been issued his or her first payment of regular

benefits by the fourth week following the week in which he or she files his or

her initial claim for regular benefits;

B)        satisfies the union hiring hall procedures set forth in Section

2865.50;

C)        has a definite date of recall to work;

D)        is unemployed as the result of a labor dispute; or

E)        has left work voluntarily.

b)         Each claimant who is assigned an exhaustion probability score

shall be entered by the Department into a selection pool for the substate area

in which the individual resides or a subdivision of that area where the substate

grantee for the area has established subdivisions.  The substate grantee will

each week select individuals in the selection pool for referral to available

reemployment services in descending order of their exhaustion probability

scores

shall be entered by the Department into a selection pool for the substate area

in which the individual resides or a subdivision of that area where the substate

grantee for the area has established subdivisions.  The substate grantee will

each week select individuals in the selection pool for referral to available

reemployment services in descending order of their exhaustion probability

scores.  When two or more individuals in a selection pool have the same score

and reemployment services are not available for all of them, the substate

grantee will select for referral a number of them equal to the number of

individuals for whom reemployment services are available, selecting the

individuals whose initial applications for regular benefits have the earlier

filing dates.  When two or more individuals in a selection pool have the same

score and filed their initial applications for regular benefits on the same

date and reemployment services are not available for all of them, the substate

grantee will randomly select for referral a number of them equal to the number

of individuals for whom reemployment services are available.  Whenever the

availability of certain reemployment services is lawfully limited to

individuals meeting specific characteristics, such as when the services are

offered as part of an effort to assist in the location or expansion of an

employer within the State, selections for referral to the services will be made

as though individuals in the selection pool who do not meet those

characteristics were not in the selection pool.

c)         The reemployment services to which an individual is referred under

this Section will in all instances include an orientation meeting with an

entity providing reemployment services within the substate area in which the

individual resides

rral to the services will be made

as though individuals in the selection pool who do not meet those

characteristics were not in the selection pool.

c)         The reemployment services to which an individual is referred under

this Section will in all instances include an orientation meeting with an

entity providing reemployment services within the substate area in which the

individual resides.  Following the orientation meeting, reemployment services

may also include: assessments; counseling; job placement services and referrals

to employers; job search work shops or job clubs; and referral to more

intensive services, such as training.  When an individual is initially referred

by the Department to a reemployment service orientation meeting and then

scheduled for reemployment services by an entity providing those services on

behalf of the substate grantee that initially selected the individual for

referral, the individual is considered as having been referred to the

reemployment services by the Department, except when the entity indicates

participation in the reemployment services is optional.

d)         The Department will send each individual selected for referral

to reemployment services a referral notice that will include a statement

regarding the obligation to participate in reemployment services and the

potential consequences of failing to participate in the services, as well as

all information necessary for the individual to report to the orientation

meeting.

e)         The Department will remove from the selection pool any

individual who, within four weeks after the week in which he or she is issued

his or her first payment of regular benefits, is not sent a notice of referral

to reemployment services. After being removed from the selection pool, an

individual may still be referred to reemployment services, but he or she shall

no longer be obligated to participate in reemployment services

the selection pool any

individual who, within four weeks after the week in which he or she is issued

his or her first payment of regular benefits, is not sent a notice of referral

to reemployment services. After being removed from the selection pool, an

individual may still be referred to reemployment services, but he or she shall

no longer be obligated to participate in reemployment services.

f)         For the purposes of this Section, "substate area"

refers to an area established by the Governor under section 312 of the Job

Training Partnership Act. "Substate grantee" refers to the entity

designated as the substate grantee for a substate area under that section.