Sam Farr: “I rise to endorse the President's Re-Employment Act. This legislation is long overdue. Our current retraining and job…”

“I rise to endorse the President's Re-Employment Act. This legislation is long overdue. Our current retraining and job placement effort is a miasma of programs, a cross-stitch of agencies, and a confusing network of support systems, that sometimes work, but more often do not. The President's Re-Employment Act creates clarity out of chaos and simplicity out of confusion by consolidating similar job-training and job placement programs into a single program. Under this bill, no longer will the emphasis be on why a worker lost his or her job, but how to put hard-working people back into the workplace. I can testify first-hand that the President's Re-employment Act will work. A similar program is in operation in my district right now. The Monterey County Regional Job Opportunity Center is a one-stop resource and information center for job training, job placement and worker benefits and assistance. This job opportunity center assists job seekers with identification of skills and abilities, job retraining, job search preparation and the directed job search. For employers, the job opportunity center assists with recruitment, screening and referral, employee training reimbursements, and identification of potential tax credits. The President's bill seeks to do the same. It pairs the unemployed with employers who need good, solid workers, and it does it in a simple, straightforward way. Let us get the President's bill moving so we can put America back to work again!”