GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 831

SENATE BILL 563

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COMMUNITY WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM TO CHANGE LIMITATIONS ON TIME SPENT AT A WORKSITE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 108A-39.2(d) is rewritten to read:

"Participants placed on work experience sites shall be placed for a period not to exceed nine months unless:

(1)       The participant submits a signed request to remain on the job site; and

(2)       The Director of the County Department of Social Services shall determine that it is in the participant's best interest to remain on the job site; and

(3)       It would be the best option for preparing participant to obtain unsubsidized employment.

The County Department of Social Services shall re-evaluate a participant's employability and placement plan when the participant has worked at a worksite for six months and is still on the worksite.  Health related problems that may keep a participant from participating in the program shall be taken into consideration by the County Department prior to placing participants on work experience sites.

If the participant has been unable to find subsidized employment after being placed on a work experience site continuously for nine months, the County Department of Social Services may place the participant in a new work experience site for a period not to exceed nine months.  The County Department of Social Services shall re-evaluate the participant's employability and placement plan after the participant is on the new worksite six months."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of August, 1987.