Job Training Partnership Act

(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 97-889) Job Training Partnership Act - Sets forth the purposes of this Act: (1) to establish programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force; and (2) to afford job training to economically disadvantaged and other individuals facing serious barriers to employment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and for each succeeding fiscal year to carry out title II, part A (Adult and Youth Programs) and title IV (Federally Administered Programs), other than part B (Job Corps). Provides that: (1) the amounts authorized for title IV (federally administered programs) shall be equal to not more than seven percent of the total appropriations; and (2) of such title IV funds, specified amounts shall be available for veterans' employment programs and for the National Commission for Employment Policy. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and each succeeding fiscal year to carry out title II, part B (Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs), title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers), and title IV, part B (Job Corps). Title I: Job Training Partnership - Part A: Service Delivery System - Provides for the establishment of service delivery areas (SDAs). Directs each State Governor, after receiving the State job training coordinating council proposal, to publish tentative SDAs for the State each of which: (1) is comprised of the State or one or more units of general local government; (2) will promote effective service delivery; and (3) is consistent with labor market areas (LMAs) or standard metropolitan statistical areas or with areas in which related services are provided under other State or Federal programs. Requires that local governments, businesses, and other affected persons be given an opportunity to comment on such proposed SDAs. Directs the Governor to approve requests to be an SDA from: (1) any local government with a population of 200,000 or more; (2) any consortium of contiguous local governments with an aggregate population of 200,000 or more, which serves a substantial part of an LMA; and (3) any concentrated employment program grantee for a rural area which served as a prime sponsor under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Provides for appeals to the Secretary of Labor ("the Secretary") of denials by the Governor of such requests. Authorizes the Governor to approve SDA requests, without regard to population, from any local government, or consortium of contiguous local governments, which serves a substantial portion of an LMA. Directs the Governor to consider such requests, and the comments of affected persons, before making the final SDA designations. Prohibits the Governor from redesignating SDAs: (1) more frequently than every two years; and (2) later than four months before the beginning of a program year. Directs the Governor to make such redesignation upon petition by specified entities. Provides for the establishment of a private industry council (PIC) for every SDA. Requires a majority of PIC members to consist of private sector representatives (business executives nominated by business organizations in the SDA, representing the industrial and demographic composition of the business community; and, with whenever possible, one-half of the private sector representatives being from small, including minority, businesses). Requires PIC membership to also include representatives of educational agencies (representative of all educational agencies in the SDA and nominated by specified types of educational agencies and institutions), organized labor (recommended by recognized State and local labor organizations or appropriate building trades councils), rehabilitation agencies, community-based organizations, economic development agencies, and the public employment service (recommended by interested organizations). Directs the chief elected officials of local governments within the SDA to appoint PIC members using such nominations and and recommendations. Provides for appointment and selection by the Governor in the event that agreement cannot be reached by such officials. Provides that PIC members be appointed for fixed and staggered terms and serve until successors are appointed. Requires that any vacancy be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. Permits the removal of any PIC member for cause in accordance with procedures established by the PIC. Provides for PIC certification by the Governor within 30 days of receipt of a membership list and necessary supporting documents. Makes the PIC responsible for policy guidance and oversight of activities under the job training plan for its SDA, in partnership with the local governments within its SDA. Directs the PIC, in agreement with the appropriate chief elected officials, to: (1) determine procedures for developing the job training plan (which may be prepared by the PIC, or by any local government in the SDA, or by other agreed upon methods or institutions); and (2) select as a grant recipient and/or plan administrator the PIC, any local government in the SDA, a nonprofit private organization or corporation, or any other agreed upon entities. Authorizes the PIC to review, monitor, and evaluate the programs conducted under the plan in accordance with procedures established by the PIC. Requires that plans be approved by the PIC and the appropriate officials before being jointly submitted to the Governor. Directs the PIC to prepare and approve a budget for itself, in accordance with the plan. Authorizes the PIC to hire staff, incorporate, and solicit and accept contributions and grant funds. Sets forth requirements for biennial job training plans. Requires each plan to contain: (1) identification of grant recipient and program administrator; (2) description of services, including duration and estimated training cost per participant; (3) participant selection procedures; (4) performance goals; (5) service providers selection procedures; (6) budget for two program years and proposed expenditures for succeeding two program years; (7) methods of compliance with Governor's coordination criteria; (8) coordination, where necessary, of individual SDAs within a single LMA; (9) accounting procedures; (10) procedures for an annual report to the Governor describing program year activities, participants, and compliance with performance standards. Provides for modifications of plans under certain conditions. Provides for review and comment on plans by the State legislature, appropriate local educational and other public agencies in the SDA, affected labor organizations, and the general public. Directs the Governor to approve the plan within a specified period, unless certain findings are made or interested parties petition for disapproval and meet specified conditions. Directs the Governor to redesignate SDAs to merge an affected SDA into one or more other SDAs, in order to promote agreement whenever a PIC and an official fail to reach agreement. Provides for reconstitution of PICs and modification of plans under such circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to approve a plan or modification in any case in which the SDA is a State. Provides for nationally established performance standards. Declares that the basic measure of performance for adult training programs under title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) is the increase in employment and earnings and the reductions in welfare dependency resulting from participation in the program. Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards on the basis of appropriate factors, such as: (1) unsubsidized employment placement and retention; (2) increased earnings; and (3) reduction in the number of individuals receiving cash welfare payments. Directs the Secretary to designate additional factors in evaluating the performance of youth programs, including: (1) attainment of PIC-recognized employment competencies; (2) elementary, secondary, or postsecondary completion or equivalency; and (3) enrollment in other training programs or apprenticeships, or military enlistment. Requires specified inclusions under such performance standards. Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating gross program expenditures to various performance measures. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish initial performance standards within six months after enactment of this Act; (2) prescribe first program year standards not later than January 31, 1984; and (3) report to Congress on each performance standard's relative importance and contribution to achievement of the goals of this Act, within six months after completion of the first two program years. Directs the Secretary to prescribe variations in performance standards for special populations to be served. Authorizes the Secretary to make non-retroactive modifications of performance standards once every two program years, and requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on such modifications. Authorizes Governors, within limits established by the Secretary, to prescribe variations in standards based on specified factors. Directs the National Commission on Employment Policy to advise the Secretary in developing performance standards and limits on variations and to evaluate the usefulness and impacts of such standards. Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards for programs under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) based on unsubsidized employment placement and retention. Directs Governors to: (1) provide technical assistance to programs which do not meet performance criteria; and (2) if such failure persists for a second year, impose a reorganization plan which may include restructuring the PIC, prohibiting use of designated service providers, or selecting an alternative administrative entities. Sets forth procedures for such changes, including hearings and appeals to the Secretary. Sets forth provisions for selection of service providers. Makes the primary consideration in such selection the proven effectiveness of the agency or organization in delivering comparable or related services. Requires that proper consideration be given to community-based organizations as service providers. Prohibits the use of funds for duplicate facilities or services, with specified exceptions. Requires that appropriate education agencies in the SDA be given the opportunity to provide educational services, with specified exceptions. Prohibits the administrative entity from funding any occupational skills program unless the skill level provided meets PIC guidelines. Sets forth limitations on the use of SDA funds for certain costs. Provides for waivers of such limitations under specified circumstances. Part B: Additional State Responsibilities - Directs the Governor to annually prepare a statement of goals and objectives for job training and placement programs within the State to assist in preparation of job training plans under this Act and of plans under the Wagner-Peyser Act. Requires a State seeking financial assistance under this Act to submit a biennial Governor's coordination and special services plan to the Secretary. Provides that Governor's coordination and special services activities may include: (1) information and technical assistance to prime sponsors and PICs; (2) special model training and employment programs and related services; (3) programs to meet needs of special groups, such as offenders and ex-offenders; (4) financial assistance for rural programs; (5) training and employment in energy conservation and use and in development of solar energy sources; (6) industrywide training; (7) activities under title III of this Act (Employment and Training Assistance for Displaced Workers); (8) information services to prime sponsors on a State and local area basis regarding economic, industrial, and labor market conditions; (9) training for staffs of local prime sponsors, PICs, and contractors for State supported programs; and (10) statewide programs providing for joint funding of activities under this Act with services and activities under other employment-related programs. Requires a State desiring to receive financial assistance under this Act to establish a State job training coordinating council. Directs the Governor to appoint such council and to designate one nongovernmental member as chairman. Sets forth requirements for composition of the council, with: (1) one-third of the membership representing business and industry (including agriculture, where appropriate); (2) at least 20 percent representatives of the State legislature and agencies; (3) at least 20 percent representing local governments; and at least 20 percent representing of the eligible population, the general public, organized labor, community-based organizations, and local education agencies. Requires the council to advise the State on job training, information, and placement. Requires the council to: (1) propose substate SDA's; (2) plan specified resource allocations; (3) provide management guidance and review for all programs in the State; (4) approve of all SDA plans; (5) develop linkages with other programs; (6) coordinate activities with PICs; and (7) develop State job training report and performance standards. Requires the council to review and comment on the State plan for the State employment service agency. Includes among the council's duties the review of plans and programs in SDA's and of all appropriate State agencies. Requires the council to develop the Governor's coordination and special services plan and to review and certify job training plans. Authorizes the Governor to transfer to the council specified functions of the State advisory council under the Wagner-Peyser Act and of any State coordinating committee for the work incentive (WIN) program under the Social Security Act. Directs the Governor to use specified reserved title II funds to assist any State education agency responsible for education and training to: (1) provide services for eligible participants through cooperative agreements between such State agencies, SDA administrative agencies, and local education agencies; and (2) facilitate coordination of education and training services for eligible participants through such cooperative agreements. Sets forth permissible uses of such funds, fund allocation formulas, and matching grant requirements. Authorizes the Governor, from specified reserved title II funds, to provide for job training and placement programs for the private employment of individuals 55 years and older who are economically disadvantaged. Directs the Governor, after consultation with appropriate PICs and local officials, to enter into agreements with public agencies, nonprofit private organizations, and private businesses to carry out such programs. Directs the Governor to consider assisting programs involving growth industries and new technological skills. Sets forth provisions for State labor market information programs. Directs the Governor, in order that a State be eligible for Federal aid to State labor market information programs under this Act, to designate an organizational unit to: (1) oversee and manage a statewide comprehensive labor market and occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such a system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment and economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individualized career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to improve the statewide information system (requires that project results remain in the public domain if Federal funds are used). Directs the Secretary through the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee to reimburse States the costs of such programs, up to a specified amount. Gives the consent of Congress to interstate compacts and agreements which enhance compliance with this Act, subject to approval by the Secretary. Part C: Program Requirement for Service Delivery System - Sets forth general program requirements under this Act. Requires job training plans to provide employment and training opportunities to those most in need of such opportunities and to make efforts to provide equitable services among significant segments of the eligible population. Requires that funds provided under this Act be used only for activities that otherwise would not be available in the area. Prohibits use of such funds to assist in relocating establishments or parts of establishments, unless such relocation will not increase unemployment in any area. Requires that training be only for occupations for which there is a demand in the area served or in an area to which the participant is willing to relocate. Requires that efforts be made to develop programs which contribute to occupational development, upward mobility, development of new careers, and overcoming sex-stereotyping in occupations traditional for the other sex. Permits purchase of commercially available training packages, for off-the-shelf prices and without a cost component breakdown, if such packages are purchased competitively and include performance criteria. Limits payments to employers for on-the-job training to an average of 50 percent of the wages paid to participants during the training period. Prohibits charging an individual a fee for placement or referral in or to a training program under this Act. Permits subsidized employment with a private for-profit employer, but only if the employee is an economically disadvantaged youth aged 16 through 21 and specified title II provisions are met. Prohibits funding of programs involving political activities. Prohibits funding of public service employment under a job training plan. Sets forth requirements for participant benefits. Requires that individuals employed in activities authorized under this Act be paid wages at a rate which is the highest of the applicable Federal, State or local minimum wage or the prevailing rate for individuals employed in similar occupations by the same employer. Provides that allowances, earnings, and payments to participants shall not be considered income for purposes of eligibility and amount of income transfer and in-kind aid for programs, other than programs under the Social Security Act. Sets forth provisions for labor standards for activities under this Act, including provisions relating to occupational health and safety, workers' compensation, and working conditions and worker benefits. Requires that conditions of employment and training be appropriate and reasonable and that benefits and working conditions for employees in subsidized jobs be at the same level as for similarly situated employees or trainees. Prohibits use of funds under this Act for contributions on behalf of any participant to retirement systems or plans. Prohibits: (1) displacement of any currently employed worker by a program participant; and (2) any impairment of existing contracts for services. Requires written concurrence of the labor organization concerned for any program under this Act which would be inconsistent with collective bargaining agreement terms. Prohibits employment of program participants to fill job vacancies created by layoffs, terminations, or other workforce reductions. Prohibits creation of jobs in a promotional line which infringes upon promotional opportunities of currently employed individuals. Requires recipients of funds under this Act to assure that none of such funds will be used to assist, promote, or deter union organizing. Requires an opportunity for comment to be given to any labor organization representing a substantial number of employees engaged in similar work or training in an area proposed to be funded under this Act. Makes the Davis-Bacon Act local prevailing wage standard applicable to workers on projects assisted under this Act, except for bona fide trainees. Sets forth grievance procedure requirements. Declares that no provision of this Act shall be construed to authorize any Federal direction, supervision, or control over curricula, instruction programs, administration, personnel or instructional materials of any educational institution or school system. Part D: Federal and Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth provisions for: (1) a transition to program year funding; (2) prompt allocation of funds; (3) monitoring; (4) fiscal controls and sanctions; (5) reports, recordkeeping, and investigations; (6) administrative adjudication; (7) nondiscrimination; (8) judicial review; (9) administrative powers; (10) services and facilities utilization; and (11) obligational authority. Part E: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth procedures and deadlines for the transition from the provisions of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to the provisions of this Act. Sets forth criminal penalties for theft or embezzlement from employment and training funds, improper inducement, and obstruction of investigations. Provides that references to CETA in any other statute shall be deemed to refer to this Act. Repeals CETA. Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Amendments of 1978. Title II: Training Services for the Disadvantaged - Part A: Adult and Youth Programs - Sets forth formulas for the allocation of amounts appropriated to specified territories and to the States to carry out this part. Allocates such funds among the States on the basis of the relative numbers of: (1) unemployed persons; (2) unemployed persons in excess of four and one-half percent of the civilian labor force in the State or in areas of substantial unemployment; (3) unemployed persons residing in areas of substantial unemployment; and (4) adults in low-income families. Directs the Governor to suballocate the State allocation among State SDA's based upon such relative numbers, with specified percentages of the State allocation to be reserved for: (1) State education coordination and grants; (2) training programs for older individuals; (3) incentive grants for programs exceeding performance standards, including incentives for serving hard-to-serve individuals; and (4) costs of auditing, administration, the Governor's coordination and special services plan, and the State job training coordinating council. Limits eligibility to participate in title II programs to economically disadvantaged individuals; but allows up to ten percent of title II program participants to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged if such individuals have encountered barriers to employment (including, but not limited to, individuals with limited English-language proficiency, displaced homemakers, teenage parents, older workers, veterans, offenders, alcoholics, addicts, school dropouts, or handicapped). Requires that funds under this part be used in accordance with the job training plan to provide authorized services for disadvantaged youth and adults. Requires that at least 40 percent of such funds be used for such services for youths aged 16 through 21, with proportionate increases or reductions of this minimum requirement in areas where the ratio of economically disadvantaged youth to economically disadvantaged adults differs from the nationwide ratio. Requires that eligible school dropouts and specified recipients of aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) be served on an equitable basis, taking into account their proportion of economically disadvantaged persons 16 years of age or older in the area. Prohibits, within an SDA, the ratio of on-the-job- training participants, assisted under this title, in the public sector to on-the-job training participants in the private sector from exceeding the ratio between civilian governmental employment and nongovernmental employment. Sets forth a non-exhaustive list of permissible title II services, under both adult and youth programs. Permits programs of advanced career training which provide a formal combination of on-the-job and institutional training and internship assignments which prepare individuals for career employment. Permits training programs operated by the private sector, including labor organizations or consortia of employers, using private sector facilities, equipment, and personnel to train workers in occupations for which demand exceeds supply. Includes among other permissible services: (1) job search; (2) job counseling; (3) remedial and basic skills education; (4) institutional skill training; (5) on-the-job training; (6) outreach; (7) labor market information; (8) work habit development; (9) supportive services; (10) upgrading and retraining; (11) education-to-work transition; (12) literacy and bilingual training; (13) work experience and vocational exploration; (14) high school equivalency; (15) job and job-opening development and generation; (16) pre-apprenticeship programs; (17) program information to employers; (18) advanced learning technology; (19) followup: and (20) coordination with related programs. Provides that supportive services may be provided to enable individuals to participate in the program and to assist them in retaining employment for not to exceed six months following completion of training. Permits needs-based payments, necessary to program participation, in accordance with a locally developed formula or procedure. Permits on-site industry-specific training programs supportive of industrial and economic development. Permits customized training conducted with a commitment by an employer or group of employers to employ an individual upon successful completion of such training. Sets forth provisions for the following exemplary youth programs which the job training plan may include at the option of those responsible for its preparation, in addition to other title II services for youth: (1) an education for employment programs; (2) a preemployment skills training program; (3) an entry employment experience program; and (4) a school-to-work transition assistance program. Provides for an education for employment program to maintain networks of learning centers offering individualized instruction in convenient locations and preparing students to meet State and local general education diploma and basic education competency requirements. Makes eligible youth who have not attained a high school diploma or have educational deficiencies despite such attainment eligible for such learning center programs, with priority given to high school dropouts. Gives priority in the selection of learning center service providers to previously funded in-school and community based organizations which are both cost-effective and demonstrably successful. Provides for a preemployment skills training program for youth aged 14 through 21, with priority given to those who do not meet established academic achievement levels and who plan to enter the full-time labor market upon leaving school. Requires that eligible youth be provided with up to 200 hours of individualized instruction and activities. Provides for an entry employment experience program for youth who: (1) have completed preemployment skills training or its equivalent; (2) have not held a regular part- time or summer job for more than 250 hours of paid employment (except if this requirement is waived in accordance with plan criteria); and (3) are enrolled in a secondary school or a certified high school equivalency program and are meeting or have met current or most recent term minimum academic and attendance requirements. Gives priority to those not planning to continue on to postsecondary education. Permits entry employment to be up to 20 hours weekly during the school year or full time during the summer and holidays, for an individual total up to 500 hours. Requires supervision, including attendance and worksite performance standards. Sets forth permissible types of entry employment program experiences. Permits employment in public and private nonprofit agencies, on a full-time basis during the summer and on a part-time basis in combination with education and training activities, in jobs providing community improvement services that complement local expenditures. Permits "tryout employment" at private for-profit worksites, with compensation in lieu of wages paid by the grant recipient. Limits tryout employment to: (1) 250 hours per participant; and (2) assignments for which the participant would not usually be hired. Prohibits refilling tryout positions if the previous participant completed the tryout but was not hired. Permits tryout employment at public and private nonprofit worksites when private for-profit worksites are not available. Permits tryout employment in cooperative education programs to coordinate educational programs with work in the private sector. Provides for a school-to-work transition assistance program for: (1) high school seniors planning to enter the full-time labor market upon graduation, with priority to those in high schools where a predominance of the students come from families below 70 percent of the lower living standard; and (2) dropouts, with immediate followup after leaving school. Sets forth some allowable types of transition services. Requires that all seniors and dropouts eligible for and in need of training activities be provided information and, where appropriate, be referred to specified types of employment and training programs. Part B: Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs - Allocates appropriations to specified territories and to the States for summer youth programs under this part. Provides that such funds shall be allotted among the States and allocated among SDA's within States on the same basis as provided under part A of this title. Permits funds available under this title to be used for: (1) employment or job training activities designed for employment or employment preparation and placement; and (2) supportive services for program participation and employment retention. Requires that programs under this title be conducted during the summer months. Makes economically disadvantage persons under the age of 22 eligible for such programs, but permits economically disadvantaged individuals aged 14 or 15 to be eligible, if appropriate and set forth in the job training plan. Gives PICs, local elected officials, State job training councils, and Governors the same authority, duties and responsibilities with respect to planning and administration of funds under this part as under part A of this title. Title III: Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers - Authorizes the Secretary to reserve up to 25 percent of the appropriations for this title for use by States which apply for assistance to provide training, retraining, job search assistance, placement, relocation assistance, and other aid (including specified authorized activities) to individuals who: (1) are affected by mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal Government actions (such as relocation of Federal facilities); or (2) reside in areas of high unemployment or designated enterprise zones. Directs the Secretary to allot the remainder of title III funds among the States on the same basis used for allotment under part A of title II. Authorizes States to establish procedures to identify substantial groups of eligible individuals who: (1) have been terminated or laid-off or have received notice of termination or layoff, are eligible for or have exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; (2) have been terminated, or have received termination notice, due to permanent closure of a plant or facility; or (3) are long-term unemployed and have limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or similar occupation in their area of residence (including older individuals with substantial barriers to employment by reason of age). Directs States, with PIC assistance, to determine what job opportunities, for which eligible individuals could be retrained, exist within or outside the local labor market area. Directs States to: (1) determine whether such retraining opportunities exist or could be provided within the area; and (2) make such information available to workers. Sets forth permissible types of job search, development, training, and supportive services under this title, including pre-layoff and relocation assistance and programs conducted in cooperation with employers or labor organizations to provide early intervention in the event of closures of plants or facilities. Permits Federal funds provided to States under this title to be used to pay 50 percent of the dislocated workers assistance program. Provides for ten percent increases in the amount of such assistance to a State for each one percent, or portion thereof, by which the average rate of unemployment for such State exceeds the national average. Provides for program review and recommendations by PICs and local officials. Requires full consultation with a labor organization before the establishment any assistance program funded under this title which will provide services to a substantial number of members of such labor organization. Limits to 30 percent the amount of specified funds under this title in any State which may be available for supportive services, administrative costs, wages, allowances, and stipends. Requires States to submit to the Secretary a plan for use of assistance under this title, including provisions for coordination of programs, low-income weatherization and other energy conservation programs, and social services. Title IV: Federally Administered Programs - Part A: Employment and Training Programs for Native Americans and Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers - Sets forth provisions for Native American employment and training programs. Directs the Secretary to reserve for Native Americans programs from title IV (other than part B) Funds an amount equal to not less than three and three-tenths percent of the amount available for title II, part A programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules, regulations and performance standards necessary to meet the special circumstances under which such Native American programs operate, after consultation with representatives of Indians and other Native Americans. Directs the Secretary to provide necessary technical assistance to tribes, bands, and groups eligible for such programs. Directs the Secretary to take appropriate action to establish administrative procedures and machinery (including personnel having particular competence in this field) for the selection, administration, monitoring, and evaluation of Native American employment and training programs, and of migrant and seasonal employment and training programs, under this Act. Sets forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker employment and training programs. Requires that the public agencies and private nonprofit organizations carrying out program services have a previously demonstrated capability to administer effectively a diversified employability development program for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Authorizes the Secretary to approve the designation of grantees for such programs for a period of two years. Requires program fund recipients to establish performance goals. Prohibits national farmworker programs and activities from precluding other assistance to farmworkers under this Act. Directs the Secretary to consult with appropriate State and local officials in administering national farmworker programs. Directs the Secretary to reserve for farmworker programs from title IV (other than part B) funds an amount equal to not less than three and two-tenths percent of the amount available for title II, part A programs. Part B: Job Corps - Maintains a Job Corps for economically disadvantaged youth which shall operate exclusively as a distinct national program. Sets forth provisions reauthorizing the Job Corps and making technical and conforming changes replacing related CETA provisions. Retains participant age limits of 14 through 21 and waivers of the maximum age limitation in cases of handicapped individuals. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake pilot projects to determine the value of Job Corps participation for young adults aged 22 through 24. Adds entities administering programs under title II of this Act to the list of agencies appropriate for implementing standards and procedures for the screening and selection of Job Corps applicants. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to individuals and organizations for the cost of candidate recruitment, screening and selection. Provides for exceptions from the two-year limit on Job Corps participation: (1) in any case in which completion of an advanced career program would require an individual to participate for more than two years; and (2) in special cases, as the Secretary may authorize. Limits the number of nonresidential participants to ten percent of Corps enrollees in any year. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange for advanced career training programs for selected Corps members for a period of up to one additional year of Corps participation. Permits such programs to be provided by postsecondary institutions or by businesses and labor unions. Requires reduction of Corps payments to enrollees in such programs by the amount of educational grant assistance received by such enrollees. Directs (currently authorizes) the Secretary to provide Corps enrollees with allowances and support. Raises, for FY 1983, the maximum limits on personal allowances to: $65 per month for the first six months of Corps service; and (2) $125 for the remainder of Corps service, for expected short-term service, or for readjustment allowances. Retains provisions for exceptions in unusual circumstances, but eliminates provisions for increases, by regulation, of limits on personal and readjustment allowances. Directs the Secretary to disseminate information from Job Corps program experience which may help related programs. Authorizes the Secretary to test at various Job Corps centers the efficacy of selected education or training activities. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with the Secretary of Defense for pilot projects at Job Corps centers to prepare youth to qualify for military service. Permits permanent programs for such purpose if the Secretary of Defense reimburses the Job Corps for 50 percent of program costs and an additional amount if more than 50 percent of enrollees in such programs become Armed Forces members. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake pilot projects using community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness for Job Corps center operation. Authorizes the Secretary to accept charitable donations on behalf of the Job Corps. Part C: Veterans' Employment Programs - Directs the Secretary to conduct, directly or through grant or contract, programs to meet the employment and training needs of service-connected disabled veterans, Vietnam-era veterans, and veterans recently separated from military service. Sets forth provisions relating to program conductors and to content, including activities to: (1) enhance services of other providers; (2) provide services not adequately provided; and (3) provide information on job opportunities. Directs the Secretary to administer such programs through the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment, who shall: (1) be responsible for grant awards, funds distribution, and establishment of fiscal controls, accountability, and program-performance standards for grant recipients; and (2) consult with the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to coordinate programs under this part with related veterans' programs and activities. Part D: National Activities - Requires that specified funds be used to provide services authorized under all titles of this Act for employment and training programs that are most appropriately administered from the national level, such as multistate programs: (1) addressed to industry-wide skill shortages; (2) designed to train workers for employment opportunities located in another State; (3) developing skills for renewable energy technologies, energy conservation, and weatherization of homes occupied by low-income families; (4) designed to develop information networks among local programs with similar objectives under this Act; and (5) assisting persons with particular employment-related disadvantages (such as offenders, persons with limited English proficiency, handicapped, women, single parents, displaced homemakers, youth, older workers lacking educational credentials, and public assistance recipients). Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a comprehensive program of employment and training research; and (2) a program of experimental, developmental, and demonstration projects. Sets forth permissible research activities. Prohibits the Secretary from paying more than 60 percent of the costs of projects developed in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense to meet civilian manpower needs on military installations and in the private sector. Authorizes the Secretary to fund pilot projects to help eliminate artificial and other employment barriers faced by persons requiring special assistance. Prohibits funding any such pilot project for more than three years under this Act. Requires, in selecting pilot project fund recipients, that special consideration be given to community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness, as well as to labor unions, and trade associations and their affiliates that address nationwide concerns through programs operating in more than one State. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for continuing evaluation of all programs, activities, and research and demonstration projects conducted under this Act; and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of programs authorized under this Act and under the Social Security Act's work incentive (WIN) program for AFDC recipients. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate officials, to provide personnel training and appropriate technical assistance (including technical assistance to training programs for housing for migrant and seasonal farmworkers) for programs under this Act. Permits utilization of training and technical assistance capabilities which exist at State and SDA level. Directs the Secretary to establish a national clearinghouse to disseminate materials and information gained from exemplary program experience. Part E: Labor Market Information - Directs the Secretary to set aside, from sums available to the Department of Labor for any fiscal year (including sums available for this title), amounts necessary to maintain a comprehensive labor market information system on a national, regional, State, local or other appropriate basis. Requires such information to be made publicly available in a timely fashion. Provides that funds available for purposes of this part shall also be available for purposes of specified title I provisions relating to State labor market information. Authorizes the heads of other Federal agencies to make available funds to carry out this part from funds available to them under the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the Wagner-Peyser Act, and the Federal Paperwork Reduction Act. Directs the Secretary to develop and maintain for the Nation, State, and local areas, current employment data by occupation and industry, based on the occupational employment statistics program, including selected sample surveys, and projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of employment and openings by occupation. Directs the Secretary to maintain descriptions of job duties, training, and education requirements, working conditions, and characteristics of occupations. Directs the Secretary to assure: (1) statistical reliability and national standardized definitions; (2) consolidation of departmental data collecting and processing systems; and (3) compliance with criteria of the Federal Paperwork Reduction Act. Authorizes the Secretary to develop: (1) data for an annual statistical measure of labor market related economic hardship; and (2) household budget data. Directs the Secretary to publish, at least annually, a report relating labor force status to earnings and income. Directs the Secretary to develop and maintain: (1) statistical data relating to permanent lay-offs and plant closings; and (2) publish a report based on such data as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year. Requires that such data include numbers of such closings and of workers displaced, locations of affected facilities, and types of industries involved. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB), and through the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC), to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; and (3) provide technical assistance to the States for a labor market and occupational supply and demand information system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure development of a system to provide young persons information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for coordination functions for the cooperative labor market information program. Reserves up to $5,000,000 from amounts available for this part for the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee established under the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Adds to Committee membership the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics. Requires that at least 75 percent of funds transferred by the Secretary to the Committee be used to support State occupational information coordinating committees and other units designated to carry out State labor market information functions. Adds to the duties of the Committee. Authorizes the Committee to use all funds available to it under specified Acts to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and carry out a nationwide computerized job bank and matching program, including the development of an occupational information file. Part F: National Commission for Employment Policy - Directs the Secretary to reserve $2,000,000 of the appropriations for this title for each fiscal year to fund the National Commission on Employment Policy. Establishes the Commission and sets forth provisions for its membership, reducing the number of members to 15 and providing for their appointment by the President. Requires that: (1) one of the members be a representative of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education; and (2) the membership be generally representative of significant segments of the labor force, including women and minority groups. Raises to five the number of additional professional personnel that the Chairman of the Commission may appoint without regard to specified civil service provisions. Part G: Training to Fulfill Affirmative Action Obligations - Permits contractors to establish or participate in training programs for eligible individuals which are designed to assist such contractors in meeting specified affirmative action obligations. Sets forth requirements for such training programs. Directs the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to promulgate regulations for affirmative action compliance review of such training programs. Permits such contractors to maintain an abbreviated written affirmative action program. Provides that successful performance or operation of such a training program shall create a presumption that a good faith effort to meet affirmative action obligations has been made. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act (U.S. Employment Service) to direct the Secretary to assure that unemployment insurance and employment service offices in each State furnish certain information regarding individuals' employment upon request by the public agencies operating the Work Incentive (WIN) program or the Child Support Enforcement program under title IV of the Social Security Act. Provides for a transition to program year funding, and authorizes additional appropriations for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds for each fiscal year after FY 1983 among the States on the basis of the civilian labor force (two-thirds of such funds) and unemployment (one-third of such funds), after each State is given a share of the total funds equal to 90 percent of its share for the preceding year, but not to exceed 90 percent of the amount received by each such State for FY 1983. Requires that no State receive a total allocation less than 0.28 percent of the total amount available for allocation. Directs the Secretary to reserve up to three percent of each State allocation to assure adequate funds for staff and other resources to carry out statewide employment services activities. Directs the Secretary to provide preliminary and final planning estimates, at specified times, showing each State's projected allocation for the following fiscal year. Requires that ten percent of each State allotment be reserved for use by the Governor for performance incentives, services for groups with special needs, and exemplary models for service delivery. Permits the remainder of State allocations to be used for: (1) job search and placement services for job seekers; (2) recruitment and technical services for employees; (3) program evaluation; (4) service linkages with related government programs; (5) services for displaced workers; (6) labor market and occupational information; (7) management information and analysis; (8) work test administration for the State unemployment compensation system; and (9) job search and placement for unemployment insurance claimants. Authorizes the U.S. Employment Service and designated State agencies to perform, in addition to activities authorized under such Act, such other labor market-related services as are specified in reimbursable contracts with the Secretary, any Federal, State, or local public agency, administrative entity under this Act, or private nonprofit organization. Requires that State plans for carrying out U.S. Employment Service activities be developed taking into consideration proposals developed jointly by the appropriate PIC and local officials for the affected SDA and transmitted to the State job training coordinating council for certification that the plan is consistent with the Governor's coordination and special services plan. Grants the Governor opportunity to review and transmit proposed modifications of the State plan submitted to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to establish performance standards under such Act which take into account differences in priorities in State plans. Declares that nothing in such Act shall be construed to prohibit referral of any applicant to private agencies as long as the applicant is not charged a fee. Authorizes appropriations to enable the Secretary to provide funds through reimbursable agreements with the States to operate statistical programs which are essential for development of estimates of the gross national product and other national statistical series, including those related to employment and unemployment. Amends Part C (Work Incentive Program -WIN) of title IV of the Social Security Act to direct to assure, when appropriate, that WIN registrants are referred for training and services under this Act. Authorizes (currently directs) the Secretary to use appropriations under such part to provide programs to assure that required WIN services and opportunities are provided. Directs the Secretary to utilize PICs under this Act for advice as to availability of area jobs for WIN program purposes (thus replacing the WIN Labor Market Advisory Councils established to serve such function). Provides that WIN employment placement program may include intensive job search services, including participation in group job search activities. Replaces "unemployed fathers" with "unemployed parents who are the principal earners" as that group which is to receive first priority for specified WIN program selection purposes. Directs the chief executive officer of each State to coordinate WIN program activities with activities provided by PICs and local officials under this Act. Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for an earnings disregard for the income of any dependent child derived from a program carried out under this Act, but only in such amounts and for such period (not to exceed six months) as the Secretary of Health and Human Services may provide in regulations. Directs the Secretary to ensure that each individual participating in any program established under this Act, or receiving any benefit under this Act, has not violated the requirement to present and submit to registration under the Military Selective Service Act. Directs the Director of the Selective Service System to cooperate with the Secretary in carrying out this title.

(Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H. R. 5320) Job Training Partnership Act - Sets forth the purposes of this Act, including: (1) increasing the productive capacity and utilization of the Nation's labor force by improving the match between the skills of the labor force and the needs of the economy and preparing youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force; (2) enhancing the job skills of unemployed and underemployed individuals, including dislocated workers and those with obsolete skills; and (3) establishing a community-based employment and training system built on a partnership between State and local governments and the private sector. Authorizes appropriations in amounts necessary to carry out this Act (other than part B, title IV provisions relating to the Job Corps) for FY 1983 and for each succeeding fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations in a specified amount for FY 1983 and in necessary amounts for succeeding fiscal years for the Job Corps. Title I: Job Training and Employment Assistance System - Part A: Community Public-Private Partership System - Provides that a prime sponsor under this Act shall be: (1) a State; (2) any local government with at least 150,000 population; (3) any consortium of local governments which includes a local government with at least 150,000 population; (4) any consortium of local governments which has an aggregate at least 150,000 population and which includes any local government previously designated as a prime sponsor under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act; (5) any local government or consortium of local governments, without regard to population, which can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that it serves a substantial portion of a labor market area (LMA) for which no other eligible local government has submitted an approvable plan; (6) any existing concentrated employment program grantee which served a rural area under CETA; and (7) during FY 1983 through FY 1988, any local government or consortium previously designated as a CETA prime sponsor, subject to specified conditions. Makes any prime sponsors which is a specified type of consortium and which serves a substantial portion of an LMA eligible to receive certain bonus payments. Permits a State to qualify as a prime sponsor for any geographic area which is not within the jurisdiction of other prime sponsors. Directs the Governor of such a State to: (1) designate one or more service delivery areas (SDAs) within the area served by the State as a prime sponsor, in consultation with the local governments in each such area; and (2) establish a private industry council (PIC) for each such area. Prohibits a larger local government from qualifying as a prime sponsor with respect to the jurisdiction within its area of any smaller local government which is, or is part of, a prime sponsor that has submitted an approvable plan. Requires an applicant to submit to the Secretary a notice of intent to be a prime sponsor under this Act for a two-year period. Directs the Secretary to designate as a prime sponsor any applicant submitting such notice, unless such applicant does not qualify. Authorizes the Secretary to designate the State or other alternate prime sponsor in the State to develop a plan for any area for which no prime sponsor has been designated. Requires, if two or more previously designated prime sponsors are eligible to be so designated under this Act but are located in a single LMA within the same State, that such prime sponsors establish a joint PIC: (1) which serves an area with at least 150,000 population or comprising a substantial portion of such LMA; and (2) on which each prime sponsor is entitled to proportionate representation. Requires each prime sponsor under this Act to establish a PIC with joint responsibility for the planning of activities. Permits a prime sponsor to designate for such purpose a PIC which served the same prime sponsor area under CETA. Prohibits a prime sponsor from using funds under this Act for any activity not approved by the PIC. Requires that: (1) a majority of PIC members be representatives of business and industry in the area served by the prime sponsor; (2) such representatives be recommended by local business organizations; (3) whenever possible, at least one-half of such business and industry representatives represent small business, including minority business; and (4) the remaining representatives represent labor, education, rehabilitation, community-based organizations, the employment service, and economic development organizations and agencies and be recommended by appropriate organizations and agencies. Directs the prime sponsor to ensure that PIC membership reasonably represents the population of the area served. Provides that members be appointed for fixed terms and serve until successors are appointed. Prohibits prime sponsors from dissolving PICs or removing members, except for cause in accordance with regulations of the Secretary. Requires that vacancies be filled in the same manner as the original PIC member appointments. Directs each prime sponsor to: (1) make funds available, out of its allowable administrative costs, for PIC staff; and (2) ensure that each PIC is eligible for designation as a planning council for any other employment and training programs within designated enterprise zones. Provides for nationally established performance standards for programs under part B of title I, title III, and part A of title IV, as well as for programs carried out by prime sponsors under this Act. Directs the Secretary, with respect to prime sponsor programs, to: (1) establish national performance criteria based on such factors as unsubsidized employment placement and retention, wage increases, and reduction in the number of individuals receiving cash welfare payments; and (2) designate education competencies attainment, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school completion, and referral to other training programs, such as apprenticeships or military enlistment as additional factors in the evaluation of youth programs' performance. Directs the Secretary to determine the adequacy of each prime sponsor's performance goals (and each State's proposed performance goals for programs under part B of title I and title III) on the basis of minimum performance standards based on such national performance criteria, appropriately weighting and varying the factors in such criteria to recognize local conditions and employment barriers. Authorizes the Secretary to modify application of national performance standards for prime sponsors demonstrating exceptional local economic hardship and to approve less stringent performance goals which are the best reasonably attainable goals. Directs the Secretary, where a prime sponsor is failing to attain performance goals, to: (1) provide notice and technical assistance to the prime sponsor; and (2) in the case of ongoing failure during two consecutive years, designate an alternate prime sponsor to prepare a plan for the area for the succeeding years and terminate provision of funds to the unsuccessful prime sponsor. Authorizes the Secretary, upon determination that a prime sponsor has corrected the causes of a failure, to designate that prime sponsor to prepare a plan for a two-year period after an alternate has served the area. Sets forth requirements for biennial community job training plans. Requires that such plans be developed with the participation of, and submitted with the approval of a majority of, the PIC. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) designate the State or other alternate prime sponsor to develop a plan, with PIC participation and majority approval, in cases where the PIC and the prime sponsor cannot concur; and (2) in the event that no alternate prime sponsor is able or willing to submit such a plan, develop an area plan directly or through an appropriate public or private nonprofit agency or organization. Directs prime sponsors, with PIC concurrence, to submit plan modifications for review, if substantial deviations from an approved biennial plan become necessary. Requires plan designation of an entity to administer programs and services in the prime sponsor area. Permits such entity to be constituted as a nonprofit corporation hiring administrative and planning staff or to use government employees as such staff. Requires each plan to describe activities conducted with funds under this Act, including: (1) a labor market analysis (with special emphasis on energy conservation and renewable energy source development); (2) a demographic analysis of the eligible population; (3) participant selection procedures; (4) training and employment services, including duration, costs, wages, stipends, or allowances, and supportive services; (5) service provider selection methods and criteria, including consideration of community-based organizations as subgrantees or subcontractors; (6) procedures assuring training services through subgrants or subcontracts with service providers of demonstrated effectiveness, unless the administrative entity can carry out specific services more effectively; (7) agreements with employers regarding length of employee classroom and worksite training times; (8) arrangements for coordination with educational agencies; (9) procedures for expenditure recordkeeping and for monitoring and auditing subgrantees or subcontractors; (10) allocation and use of funds retained from one fiscal year for use in the succeeding fiscal year; and (11) procedures for consideration of previously funded, cost-effective, and demonstrably successful service deliveries to deliver programs and activities under this Act. Requires each plan to include: (1) performance goals; (2) a statement of assurance of compliance with applicable requirements; (3) a description of methods of coordinating programs under this Act with other employment-related programs; and (4) in the case of any prime sponsor establishing a joint PIC, a description of specified arrangements with other prime sponsors. Sets forth procedures for review of prime sponsor plans by the PIC, the State legislature, and appropriate local governments and labor organizations, as well as for availability to the public, before submission for approval or disapproval by the Secretary. Requires the State employment and training council to either certify such a plan as consistent with the Governor's coordination and special services plan or to return the plan, with recommendations for modification, to the prime sponsor. Requires that such recommendations, and any modifications proposed by the Governor, accompany the plan submitted to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to notify the Governor if such recommendations or proposed modifications are not accepted. Sets forth requirements for the Secretary's review and approval of plans. Prohibits the Secretary from disapproving all or any portion of a plan solely on the basis of the type or duration of training proposed. Part B: State Responsibilities - Requires States seeking financial assistance under this Act to submit a biennial Governor's coordination and special services plan to the Secretary. Requires that Governor's coordination and special services activities include: (1) information and technical assistance to prime sponsors and PICs; (2) special model training and employment programs and related services; (3) programs to meet needs of special groups, such as offenders and ex-offenders; (4) financial assistance for rural programs; (5) training and employment in energy conservation and use and in development of solar energy sources; (6) fostering activities of the State occupational information coordinating committee; (7) industrywide training; (8) activities under title III of this Act (Employment and Training Assistance for Displaced Workers); (9) information services to prime sponsors on a State and local area basis regarding economic, industrial, and labor market conditions; (10) services for older workers; (11) training for staffs of local prime sponsors, PICs, and contractors for State supported programs; and (12) statewide programs providing for joint funding of activities under this Act with services and activities under other employment-related programs. Requires States desiring to receive financial assistance under this Act to establish a State employment and training coordinating council. Includes among such council's duties the review of plans and programs of prime sponsors and of all appropriate State agencies. Requires the council to develop the Governor's coordination and special services plan and to review and certify community job training plans. Authorizes the Governor to transfer to the council specified functions of the State advisory council under the Wagner-Peyser Act and of any State coordinating committee for the work incentive (WIN) program under the Social Security Act. Reserves 20 percent of the sums available for Governor's coordination and special services activities to be used for coordination among State education and training agencies and prime sponsors. Requires that six percent of the appropriations authorized under this title be used for State incentive grants to improve vocational services to eligible individuals in prime sponsor areas. Directs the Governor, in order that a State be eligible for Federal aid to State labor market information programs under this Act, to designate an organizational unit to: (1) oversee and manage a statewide comprehensive labor market and occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such a system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment and economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individualized career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to improve the statewide information system (requires that project results remain in the public domain if Federal funds are used). Gives the consent of Congress to interstate compacts and agreements which enhance compliance with this Act, subject to approval by the Secretary. Part C: General Requirements - Sets forth general program requirements under this Act. Requires prime sponsors to provide employment and training opportunities to those most in need of such opportunities and make every effort to provide equitable services among significant segments of the eligible population. Sets program participation (30 months) and training allowances (104 weeks) limits. Permits subsidized employment with a private for-profit employer, but only if the employee is an economically disadvantaged youth aged 16 through 21 and specified title II provisions are met. Prohibits funding of programs involving political activities. Limits administrative cost expenditures to 15 percent of the total amount of funds available to a prime sponsor in any fiscal year. Requires notification by the Secretary, to the Governor and the appropriate prime sponsor, of activities to be funded under this Act by the Secretary in the State or prime sponsor area. Requires similar notification to a prime sponsor by the Governor of activities to be funded under this Act by the State in a prime sponsor area. Sets forth provisions for participant wages, benefits, and allowances. Provides for subsistence stipends at a rate equal to 70 percent of the lower living standard income level minus cash income and food stamps value. Provides for participant cost stipends to cover extra costs of transportation, meals, equipment, and child care necessary for participation, at rates according to family income. Permits lump-sum payments, tools and equipment, scholarships, and other rewards for constructive attainments. Requires that individuals employed in activities authorized under this Act be paid wages at a rate which is the highest of the applicable Federal or State or local minimum wage or the prevailing rate for individuals employed in similar occupations by the same employer. Limits subsistence stipends to amounts equivalent to the applicable minimum wage. Sets forth provisions for labor standards for activities under this Act, including provisions relating to occupational health and safety, workers' compensation, and working conditions and worker benefits. Prohibits use of funds under this Act for contributions to retirement systems or plans. Requires written concurrence of the labor organization concerned for any program under this Act which would be inconsistent with collective bargaining agreement terms. Requires recipients of funds under this Act to assure that none of such funds will be used to assist, promote, or deter union organizing. Sets forth provisions relating to allocation and availability of funds, reports, records, audits, investigations, complaints and sanctions, judicial review, services and property, and the utilization of services and facilities. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be construed to authorize any Federal direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, personnel, or selection of instructional materials in any educational institution or school system. Directs the Secretary: (1) by March 31 of each year, to set a date for submission of community job training plans and Governor's coordination and special services plans for the next fiscal year; and (2) by May 15 of each year, to make available final regulations and application materials for the next fiscal year. Requires that at least 70 percent of total expenditures by any prime sponsor for any fiscal year for programs under title II parts B and C (except provisions for summer youth employment programs) be expended for the direct provision of employment and training services. Title II: Employment and Training Services for the Disadvantaged - Part A: General Provisions - Sets forth formulas for the allocation of amounts appropriated to carry out this title. Allocates 73 percent in any fiscal year among the States on the basis of relative numbers of: (1) unemployed persons; (2) unemployed persons in excess of four and one-half percent of the civilian labor force in the State or in areas of substantial unemployment; (3) unemployed persons residing in areas of substantial unemployment; and (4) adults in low-income families. Directs the Secretary to suballocate the State allocation among prime sponsors within the State on an equitable basis based upon such relative numbers. Allocates ten percent of the amount appropriated for this title for any fiscal year, among the States in proportion to their other allocation, for: (1) the Governor's coordinating and special services; (2) the State employment and training council; and (3) State coordination among employment-related education and training programs. Directs the Secretary to make available five percent of title II funds to prime sponsors: (1) in FY 1983 as planning grants to meet special transition costs; and (2) in FY 1984 and thereafter to those who have met or exceeded performance goals during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to allocate six percent of title II funds in any fiscal year among the States to enable Governors to provide State incentive grants to State agencies responsible for specified education and training under this Act. Directs the Secretary to allocate four percent of title II funds in FY 1984 and thereafter to prime sponsors who raise, and expend for title II program purposes specified amounts of non-Federal funds. Directs the Secretary to allocate two percent of title II funds for any fiscal year among prime sponsors eligible for bonus payments for forming consortia of local governments or for serving major labor market areas. Directs the Secretary to make available, in addition to such two percent allocation, four percent of title II funds for FY 1983 to encourage voluntary consortia serving substantial portions of labor market areas. Limits eligibility to participate in title II programs to economically disadvantaged individuals, but allows up to ten percent of title II program participants to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged if such individuals have encountered barriers to employment (including, but not limited to, individuals with limited English-language proficiency, displaced homemakers, single teenage parents, older workers, veterans, ex-offenders, alcoholics, or addicts). Requires prime sponsors to use title II funds in accordance with their plans to provide employment and training services which they and their PICs determine to be necessary and appropriate for economically disadvantaged youth and adults. Requires that at least one-half of such funds be used for such services for youth aged 16 through 21, with proportionate increases or reductions of this minimum requirement in areas where the ratio of economically disadvantaged youth to economically disadvantaged adults differs from the nationwide ratio. Permits prime sponsors to transfer up to 15 percent of such allocations between adult and youth programs. Part B: Adult Training Programs - Sets forth provisions for training programs for eligible individuals age 22 or older. Sets forth a non-exhaustive list of permissible title II services, under both adult and youth programs. Permits programs of advanced career training which provide a formal combination of on-the-job and institutional training and internship assignments which prepare individuals for career employment. Permits training programs operated by the private sector, including labor organizations or consortia of employers using private sector facilities, equipment, and personnel to train workers in occupations for which demand exceeds supply. Permits employment bonuses, paid only upon retention in employment for at least six months beyond the training period, to provide incentives for employers to employ participants at the conclusion of on-the-job or other training under this Act. Includes among other permissible services: (1) job search; (2) job counseling; (3) remedial and basic skills education; (4) institutional skill training; (5) on-the-job training; (6) outreach; (7) labor market information; (8) work habit development; (9) supportive services; (10) upgrading and retraining; (11) education-to-work transition; (12) literacy and bilingual training; (13) work experience and vocational exploration; (14) high school equivalency; (15) job and job-opening development and generation; (16) apprenticeship; (17) program information to employers; (18) advanced learning technology; (19) followup; and (20) coordination with related programs. Provides that supportive services for reasonable expenses required for participation in training may be provided in-kind or through cash assistance. Requires adult training programs, to the extent possible, to provide specified types of training with a commitment by an employer or group of employers to employ individuals upon successful completion of training. Part C: Youth Preparatory Programs - Makes individuals age 16 through 21, whether in-school or out-of-school, eligible to participate in programs under this part. Makes youth age 14 or 15 eligible for: (1) pre-employment training skills programs, regardless of family income; and (2) summer youth employment programs, if appropriate and set forth in the community job training program. Excludes earnings and allowances earned under this Act by specified eligible youth from family income determinations for purposes of Federal aid. Provides that funds available under this part may be used to provide eligible youth with the activities authorized under part B, in addition to activities authorized under this part. Provides for an "education for employment" program. Authorizes prime sponsors to maintain networks of learning centers offering individualized instruction in convenient locations and preparing students to meet State and local general education diploma and basic education competency requirements. Makes eligible youth who have not attained a high school diploma or have educational deficiencies despite such attainment eligible for such learning center programs, with priority given to high school dropouts. Gives priority in the selection of learning center service providers to previously funded in-school and community based organizations which are both cost-effective and demonstrably successful. Provides for a preemployment skills training program for youth age 14 though 19, with priority given to those who plan, to enter the full-time labor market upon leaving school and who do not meet established academic achievement levels. Requires that, insofar as possible, preemployment skills training be concentrated on youth age 14 to 16. Requires that eligible youth be provided with up to 200 hours of individualized instruction and activities. Provides for an entry employment experience program for youth who: (1) have completed preemployment skills training or its equivalent; (2) have not held a regular part-time or summer job for more than 250 hours of paid employment (except if this requirement is waived in accordance with plan criteria); and (3) are enrolled in a secondary school or a certified high school equivalency program and are meeting or have met current or most recent term minimum academic and attendance requirements. Gives priority to those not planning to continue on to postsecondary education. Permits entry employment to be up to 20 hours weekly during the school year or full time during the summer and holidays, for an individual total up to 500 hours. Requires supervision, including attendance and worksite performance standards. Sets forth permissible types of entry employment program experiences. Permits employment in public and private nonprofit agencies, on a full-time basis during the summer and on a part-time basis in combination with education and training activities, in jobs providing community improvement services that complement local expenditures. Permits "tryout employment" at private for-profit worksites, with compensation in lieu of wages paid by the prime sponsor. Limits tryout employment to: (1) 250 hours per participant; and (2) assignments for which the participant would not usually be hired. Prohibits refilling tryout positions where a previously successful participant was not hired. Permits tryout employment at public and private nonprofit worksites when private for-profit worksites are not available. Provides for cooperative education programs to coordinate educational programs with work in the private sector. Mandates participation in the education for employment program for dropout youth not enrolled in other certified education activities who wish to qualify for the entry employment program (and permits such a requirement for summer month entry employment for any youth). Requires each participant to: (1) meet performance and attendance standards; and (2) be evaluated (and, if necessary, terminated) on the basis of such standards. Provides for a school-to-work transition assistance program for: (1) high school seniors planning to enter the full-time labor market upon graduation, with priority to those in high schools with a predominance of students from families below 70 percent of the lower living standard; and (2) dropouts, with immediate followup after leaving school. Sets forth some allowable types of transition services. Requires that all seniors and dropouts eligible for and in need of training activities be provided information and, where appropriate, be referred to specified types of employment and training programs. Permits eligible youth under this part to participate in summer youth employment programs of public or private nonprofit agencies and organizations which provide useful work experience and appropriate training and supplemental activities. Requires that all education programs, academic credit awards, and educational attainment certifications under this part be consistent with applicable State and local standards. Title III: Employment and Training Assistance for Displaced Workers - Declares the purposes of this title to be: (1) alternative employment assistance to involuntarily unemployed individuals (including older individuals) unlikely to be rehired by the same employer; (2) occupational retraining for individuals (including older individuals) with skills in declining occupations; and (3) reduction of the impact of economic dislocation on local communities. Authorizes the Secretary to reserve up to 25 percent of title III funds for any fiscal year, to be made available for use by the States to provide training, retraining, job search assistance, placement, relocation assistance, and other aid (including authorized title III activities) to individuals: (1) affected by mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal Government actions (such as facilities relocations); or (2) residing in areas of high unemployment or designated enterprise zones. Requires States to submit applications identifying needs and projected results in order to qualify for such assistance. Directs the Secretary to allocate the remainder of title III funds for any fiscal year among the States on the basis of relative numbers of: (1) unemployed persons; (2) unemployed persons in excess of four and one-half percent of the civilian labor force in the State; and (3) persons unemployed for 15 weeks or more. Requires each State to match its title III Federal grant by an equal expenditure of non-Federal public or private funds for title III services, including direct costs of such services and State unemployment insurance benefits to participants in title III programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations establishing conditions for appropriate reduction in such State matching amount if the average rate of unemployment in a State equals or exceeds the national average rate for any three consecutive months. Requires States desiring title III funds to submit to the Secretary of State displaced worker plans for the use of such funds and for coordination of title III programs with other Federal, State, or local employment-related programs, including low-income weatherization and other energy conservation programs. Requires such plans to ensure the maximum feasible utilization of title II program facilities and services in carrying out title III programs. Requires prime sponsor and PIC approval of title III program operations in the areas they serve. Requires, for specified title III program services, affected labor organization consultation and approval. Authorizes use of title III funds to assist eligible participants to obtain unsubsidized employment through employment, training and related services including, but not limited to: (1) job search, including job clubs; (2) job development; (3) in-demand skills training; (4) supportive services, including commuting assistance financial and personal conseling; (5) relocation assistance; (6) cooperative programs with employers or labor organizations for early intervention in the event of plant or facility closures; and (7) pre-layoff assistance. Requires allowances or stipends for eligible participants during title III training or retraining periods. Permits relocation assistance if the State determines that the participant: (1) cannot obtain employment within the commuting area; and (2) has secured suitable long-duration employment or a bona fide job offer in a relocation area. Makes eligible for title III services any individual who has experienced or been notified of termination or suspension of employment as a result of any plant or facility closure or indefinite layoff or reduction in force. Makes eligible for title III training or retraining programs any unemployed individual with job skills that the State determines offer limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or a similar occupation in the area of residence. Makes eligible any older individual who has encountered long-term unemployment, or has been discouraged from seeking employment, and who may have substantial barriers to employment by reason of age. Title IV: National Employment and Training Programs - Part A: Employment and Training Programs for Native Americans and Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers - Sets forth provisions for Native American employment and training programs. Directs the Secretary to reserve for Native Americans programs from title IV funds an amount equal to not less than two and seven-tenths percent of the amount available for title II programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules, regulations and performance standards necessary to meet the special circumstances under which such Native American programs operate, after consultation with representatives of Indians and other Native Americans. Directs the Secretary to provide necessary technical assistance to tribes, bands, and groups eligible for such programs. Sets forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker employment and training programs. Directs the Secretary to establish an office of farmworker programs within the national headquarters of the Department of Labor to select, administer, monitor, and evaluate such programs. Requires that the public agencies and private nonprofit organizations carrying out program services have a previously demonstrated capability to administer effectively a diversified employability development program for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Authorizes the Secretary to approve the designation of grantees for such programs for a period of two years. Requires that such programs, in addition to other employment and retraining activities, assist in improving the well-being of farmworkers who remain as seasonal agricultural employees. Requires title IV fund recipients to establish performance goals. Directs the Secretary to reserve for farmworker programs from title IV funds an amount equal to not less than two and eight-tenths percent of the amount available for title II programs. Prohibits national farmworker programs and activities from precluding other assistance to farmworkers under this Act. Part B: Job Corps - Sets forth provisions for the Job Corps. Sets participant age limits of 16 through 24 (CETA provides limits of 14 through 21), but permits appropriate nonresidential services for 14 and 15 year olds (both this Act and CETA allow waivers of the maximum age limitation in cases of handicapped individuals. Authorizes the Secretary to pay individuals and organizations for the cost of recruitment, screening, and selection of Job Corps candidates (but prohibits, as does CETA, any payment solely as compensation for referring the names of candidates). Requires the Director of each Job Corps center, or a designee, to serve as liaison officer to improve information exchange with other programs authorized under this Act. Provides for an exception from the two-year Job Corps enrollment period limit where necessary for participation in an advanced career program (as well as in special cases). Authorizes the Secretary to arrange for advanced career training programs for selected Corps members for a period of up to one additional year of Corps participation. Permits such programs to be provided by postsecondary institutions or by businesses and labor unions. Limits, in FY 1983, personal allowances to no more than $70 per month for the first six months and no more than $125 for the remainder of Corps service, for expected short-term service, or for readjustment allowances. Permits the Secretary to increase such allowances in FY 1984 and thereafter. Directs the Secretary to disseminate information from Job Corps program experience which may help related programs. Authorizes the Secretary to test at various Job Corps centers the efficacy of selected education or training activities. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with the Secretary of Defense for pilot projects at Job Corps centers to prepare youth to qualify for military service. Permits permanent programs for such purpose if the Secretary of Defense reimburses the Job Corps for 90 percent of program costs. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake pilot projects using community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness for Job Corps center operation. Authorizes the Secretary to accept charitable donations on behalf of the Job Corps. Part C: National Programs and Activities - Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to provide services authorized under all titles of this Act for employment and training programs that are most appropriately administered from the national level, such as federally-assisted multistate programs sponsored by public agencies or private organizations, including programs: (1) assisting persons with particular employment-related disadvantages (such as offenders, persons with limited English proficency, handicapped, women, single parents, displaced homemakers, youth, older workers, persons lacking educational credentials, veterans, and public assistance recipients); (2) fostering employment and training linkages between public and private sectors; (3) educating employers as to the benefits of hiring older persons and facilitating employment transitions for older persons; (4) addressing critical skill shortages; (5) developing skills for renewable energy technologies, energy conservation, and weatherization of homes occupied by low-income families; and (6) improving educational and employment opportunities in high unemployment areas through youth career intern programs conducted jointly by local educational agencies and community organization. Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) a comprehensive program of employment and training research; (2) a program of experimental, developmental, demonstration, and pilot projects to improve and test specialized and innovative methods to meet employment and training problems; (3) continuing evaluation of all programs, activities, and research and demonstration projects conducted pursuant to this Act; and (4) evaluation of the effectiveness of programs authorized under this Act and under the WIN program of the Social Security Act with respect to statutory goals and objectives. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate officials, to provide for personnel training and technical assistance with respect to programs under this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a national clearinghouse to disseminate materials and information gained from exemplary program experience which may improve other programs under this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Management Assistance to provide specified services to prime sponsors. Directs the Secretary to administer all veterans' employment and training programs through the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment, who shall be responsible for: (1) awarding grants and distributing funds for veterans' employment, training, and outreach services; and (2) establishing proper fiscal controls, accountability, and program performance of grant recipients for such services. Directs the Assistant Secretary to encourage such grant or contract recipients to arrange with private industry and business, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, and organized labor, in addition to other Federal and State agencies to make maximum use of existing programs. Requires that such programs emphasize the training needs of disabled, Vietnam era, and recently separated veterans. Requires that specified types of programs be included. Directs the Secretary to reserve and make available for veterans' employment programs from title IV funds an amount equal to 0.4 percent of title II funds. Part D: Labor Market Information - Provides for the development of labor market and occupational information at Federal, State, and local levels for organizations planning and delivering services under this Act. Requires that funds available under this part also be available for State labor market information programs. Directs the Secretary to develop and maintain a comprehensive system of labor market information on national, State, local, and other appropriate bases, which shall be made publicly available in a timely fashion. Authorizes the heads of other Federal agencies to make specified funds available for such program. Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) reliable methods to produce more statistically accurate data on unemployment by State and local areas (and investigate alternative methods of producing such data on underemployment and labor demand); (2) current employment data by occupation and industry; and (3) job descriptions. Directs the Secretary to assure: (1) statistical reliability and national standardized definitions; (2) consolidation of departmental data collecting and processing systems; and (3) compliance with criteria of the Federal Paperwork Reduction Act. Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) data for an annual statistical measure of labor market related economic hardship; and (2) household budget data. Directs the Secretary to publish, at least annually, a report relating labor force status to earnings and income. Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) statistical data relating to closings of mines and manufacturing plants or facilities employing 50 or more workers; and (2) publish a report based on such data as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year. Directs the Secretary to: (1) set aside funds available to the Department (including sums available under this title) in an amount necessary and appropriate to carry out such labor market information program; and (2) notify the appropriate committees of the Congress of such amount and the basis for its determination. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB) to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; and (3) provide technical assistance to the States for an occupational supply and demand information system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure that such system will provide young persons information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for coordination functions for the cooperative labor market information program. Reserves at least $5,000,000 from amounts available for this part for the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee established under the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Adds to Committee membership the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics. Requires that at least 75 percent of funds transferred by the Secretary to the Committee be used to support State occupational information coordinating committees. Adds to the duties of the Committee. Authorizes the Committee to use all funds available to it under specified Acts to carry out its functions. Sets forth provisions for a nationwide computerized job bank and matching program, including the development of an occupational information file. Part E: National Commission on Employment and Productivity - Directs the Secretary to reserve $2,000,000 of the appropriations for this title for each fiscal year to fund the National Commission on Employment and Productivity (currently known as the National Commission on Employment Policy). Establishes the Commission and sets forth provisions for its membership (adds four members to the 15 members appointed by the President under CETA provisions for the current Commission, with two of these to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and two by the majority leader of the Senate). Sets forth provisions for the Commission's functions, administration, and annual reports. Title V: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act (U.S. Employment Service) to direct the Secretary to allocate funds for each fiscal year after FY 1983 among the States on the basis of the civilian labor force and unemployment, after each State is given a share of the total funds equal to 90 percent of its share for the preceding year, but not to exceed 90 percent of the amount received by each such State for FY 1983. Requires that no State receive a total allocation less than 0.28 percent of the total amount available for allocation. Directs the Secretary to reserve up to three percent of each State allocation to assure adequate funds for staff and other resources to carry out statewide employment services activities. Directs the Secretary to provide preliminary and final planning estimates, at specified times, showing each State's projected allocation for the following fiscal year. Requires that ten percent of each State allotment be reserved for use by the Governor for performance incentives, services for groups with special needs, and exemplary models for service delivery. Permits the remainder State allocations to be used for: (1) job search and placement services for job seekers; (2) recruitment and technical services for employees; (3) program evaluation; (4) service linkages with related government programs; (5) services for displaced workers; (6) labor market and occupational information; (7) management information and analysis; (8) work test administration for the State unemployment compensation system; and (9) job search and placement for unemployment insurance claimants. Authorizes the U.S. Employment Service to perform, in addition to such activities, such other labor market-related services as are specified in reimbursable contracts with other State or Federal agencies. Requires that State plans for carrying out U.S. Employment Service activities be developed jointly with prime sponsors and transmitted to the State employment and training coordinating council for certification that the plan is consistent with the Governor's coordination and special services plan. Grants the Governor opportunity to review and transmit proposed modifications of the State plan submitted to the Secretary. Amends part C (Work Incentive Program - WIN) of title IV of the Social Security Act to delete a requirement that a specified portion of WIN program funds be used for specified on-the-job training and public service employment programs. Directs the Secretary to assure that WIN registrants receive employment and training services under this Act. Directs the Secretary to utilize PICs of prime sponsors under this Act for advice as to availability of area jobs for WIN programs purposes (thus replacing the WIN Labor Market Advisory Councils established to serve such function). Revises provisions for WIN program operation to direct the Secretary to: (1) provide intensive job search assistance services for all WIN registrants (as a program requirement for certified employable AFDC recipients, with specified exceptions); (2) following provision of such services, refer all WIN registrants who have not been placed in unsubsidized employment to the appropriate prime sponsor for employment and training services under this Act; and (3) place WIN registrants without unsubsidized jobs who are not currently served under this Act in other employment and training activities. Requires the State agency administering WIN program activities to coordinate these with activities under this Act. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), as of October 1, 1982. Provides for a CETA program transition period expiring at the end of September 30, 1983. Permits prime sponsors, even before the expiration of such transition period, to carry out activities authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to publish a full set of proposed regulations to carry out this Act, for purposes of review and comment, by March 1, 1983. Provides for a carryover of FY 1982 CETA funds allocated to prime sponsors, without any reduction in such areas FY 1983 allocation. Provides for a transition period for the implementation of provisions in this Act which amend the WIN program and the Wagner-Peyser Act. Title VI: Enforcement of Military Selective Service Act - Directs the Secretary to ensure that each individual participating in any program established under this Act, or receiving any benefit under this Act, has not violated the requirement to present and submit to registration under the Military Selective Service Act. Directs the Director of the Selective Service System to cooperate with the Secretary in carrying out this title.

(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #207 (95-0)) Training for Jobs Act - Establishes a comprehensive job training program. Title I: State Job Training Program - Provides for allotments and allocations from amounts authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Allots five percent of such funds to State Governors for specified statewide programs. Allots 73 percent of such funds to States for substate allocation to service delivery areas. (Sets aside the remaining 22 percent for national programs.) Allots specified amounts to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and to specified U.S. territories and possessions for service delivery area programs. Allots the remainder of service delivery area program funds among States according to numbers of long-term unemployed persons and of economically disadvantaged persons in the labor force. Requires that no State be allotted less than: (1) one-quarter of one percent of the amounts available for State job training programs; or (2) 90 percent of its allotment percentage for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made. Requires that 84 percent of each State allotment be used for substate allocations among service delivery areas on the basis of numbers of economically disadvantaged persons. Requires that the following portions of each State allotment be available: (1) two percent for State education and training agency grants; (2) six percent for education agency matching grants; (3) three percent for job training to place older persons in private employment; (4) five percent for incentive funding for programs exceeding performance criteria, including incentives for serving hard-to-serve individuals. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make State job training program allotments within 45 days after the date of enactment of any Act making appropriations to carry out this Act. Directs a State Governor, after receiving the State Job Training Council proposal, to publish tentative service delivery areas (SDAs) for the State, which will: (1) promote effective service delivery; (2) have an effective administrative agency available; and (3) be related to labor market or Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) boundaries or be consistent with existing areas in which State or Federal programs provide related services. Requires that local governments, businesses, and other affected persons be given an opportunity to comment on such proposed SDAs. Directs the Governor to review such comments and to designate SDAs within the State. Directs the Governor to approve requests to be an SDA: (1) from a local government with 500,000 or more population; (2) filed jointly from local governments and representative businesses, unless the Governor makes specific findings of fact why inclusion of such local governments in a larger area will promote the purposes of this Act through accommodation of labor market forces or coordination with other SDAs; or (3) from a local government with a 250,000 of more population and representative businesses filed jointly. Provides for appeals of the Governor's decisions to the Secretary. Prohibits a change in an SDA later than four months before the beginning of a program year or within two years of a previous revision. Directs the Governor to annually prepare a statement of State goals and objectives for job training and placement programs to assist in the preparation of private industry council (PIC) plans and plans under the Wagner-Peyser Act. Requires that there be a PIC for every SDA. Requires that a majority of members on each PIC be private industry (including small business) representatives and that the remainder be representatives of local governments, educational agencies (representative of all educational agencies in the SDA), organized labor, community-based organizations, economic development agencies, and the employment service. Directs chief elected officials of local governments within the SDA to: (1) appoint private industry representatives from nominees of for-profit businesses operating within the geographical area; and (2) select remaining representatives from individuals recommended by interested organizations. Provides for appointment and selection by the Governor in the event that agreement cannot be reached by such officials. Directs the PIC, upon certification by the Governor within 30 days of receipt of a membership list and necessary supporting documents, to prepare the program plan and certify training institutions and other agencies. Requires that specified items be included in each program plan. Requires, where there is more than one SDA in a labor market area, that the PIC for each SDA include plan provisions for program coordination. Directs the PIC to publish a proposed plan 120 days before the beginning of a program year and provide interested parties an opportunity for comment. Requires publication of a final plan not later than 80 days before the program year. Sets forth procedures to be followed in the event of program plan disagreements between PICs and local officials. Requires program plan approval within 30 days after submission unless the Governor determines that the plan does not: (1) meet performance criteria; (2) serve the economically disadvantaged; (3) correct previous deficiencies; (4) propose an entity with adequate administrative capacity or propose adequate safeguards for funds; (5) provide equality of access for all segments of the disadvantaged community; or (6) otherwise adequately or properly carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires that any disapproval by the Governor be made within 30 days after the plan is submitted. Permits joint appeals of such disapprovals by the PIC and the local elected officials to the Secretary. Prohibits use of more than 15 percent of funds available for any program year in any SDA to pay administrative costs, including evaluation. Requires a State, in order to receive funds under this title, to establish a State Job Training Council chaired by the Governor or the Governor's designee. Directs the Governor to appoint Council members. Requires that at least 51 percent of members be private sector representatives, 20 percent be local government elected officials, and the remaining members include one representative of the State employment service agency and representatives of education, organized labor, private nonprofit community-based organizations, and other interested groups. Requires the Council to advise the State on job training, information, and placement. Requires the Council, subject to the Governor's approval and with respect to programs under this title, to: (1) propose substate SDAs; (2) plan specified resource allocations; (3) provide management guidance and review for all programs in the State; (4) approve of all SDA plans; (5) develop linkages with other programs; (6) coordinate activities with PICs; and (7) develop State job training report and performance standards. Requires the Council to also perform functions previously performed by any State council established by State law under the Wagner-Peyser Act. Requires the Council to review and comment on the State plan for the State employment service agency. Permits SDA program funds to be used for: (1) specified activities for employment preparation and placement of disadvantaged persons; (2) supportive services (limited to six months duration) for program participation and employment retention; (3) payments employers for on-the-job training (not to average more than 50 percent of the wages paid by the employer to participants), as compensation for extraordinary training costs and lower productivity; (4) area employment generating activities; and (5) establishing a loan fund, as a PIC-administered supportive service, for basic expenses of participants who are ineligible for public assistance or otherwise unable to participate in or complete training (such loans are to be repaid, with interest, upon participant entry into unsubsidized employment or six months after termination of training). Prohibits funds under this title from begin used for allowances, stipends, wages, or public service employment. Bases eligibility for program participation on a person's being economically disadvantaged. Permits up to ten percent of program participants to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged, if such individuals have labor market disadvantages (such individuals may include the handicapped, those with limited English-speaking proficiency, displaced homemakers, ex-offenders, alcoholics, addicts, displaced workers, teen age parents, school dropouts, veterans, and older workers). Sets income limitations for such participation by individuals, except handicapped persons and certain dislocated workers, who are not economically disadvantaged. Requires that 50 percent of program funds be used for youth (under age 25) services. Adjusts such percentage by the difference between the ratio of economically disadvantaged youths to economically disadvantaged adults in the service delivery area and such ratio for all States. Requires that recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), who are required under the Social Security Act to be registered for employment-related activities, and eligible school drop-outs be served at least in proportion to their percentage of economically disadvantaged persons 16 years of age and over in the SDA. Requires, in the selection of agencies to deliver services, that: (1) primary consideration be given to past performance cost-effectiveness in delivery of comparable services; and (2) occupational skills training agencies be certified by the PIC as providing a level of skill acceptable to area employers. Requires all training agreements to contain standards on content, quality, duration, and results. Prohibits the ratio, in each SDA, of public sector, on-the-job training participants assisted under this title to private sector participants in such training from exceeding the ratio between civilian governmental employment and nongovernmental employment in such SDA. Permits purchase of commercially available training packages for off-the-shelf prices and without a cost component breakdown, if such packages are purchased competively and include performance criteria. Sets forth as permissible uses of funds for Governors' statewide programs: (1) the state council expenses, including program evaluation; (2) technical assistance; (3) linkage with, and assistance for, related programs; (4) special assistance for offenders, ex-offenders, and others; (5) dislocated workers programs; (6) labor market and occupational information; and (7) a management information system. Requires a State, in order to be paid its allocation under this title, to submit to the Secretary a job training report which: (1) demonstrates State fiscal responsibility for program administration; (2) includes goals, objectives, needs performance standards, types of activities to be funded, designated SDAs, and categories or characteristics of individuals to be served; (3) guarantees that spending on supportive services and administrative costs shall not exceed 30 percent of the State allocation and that 70 percent of such allocation shall be spent for training; (4) beginning in FY 1984, describe how goals, objectives, needs, and performance standards have been met in the previous program year; and (5) shall be made public on a timely basis so as to facilitate comments from interested local governments and persons. Directs the Governor to use specified sums to assist any State education agency responsible for education and training to provide specified services to eligible participants through cooperative agreements with service providers under this Act. Directs the Governor to: (1) use specified sums for grants to any State education agency responsible for education and training to pay 50 percent of the cost of improving education and training services for individuals eligible under this Act; and (2) allocate such sums to SDAs in a specified manner. Requires such grants to be used in accordance with agreements negotiated by the States' agency designee as part of the SDA plan. Requires such a greement to provide for matching grants by the State agency and the local educational agency, if any, from funds not available under this Act. Permits such grant and matching grant funds to be used for education, training, and related services to participants under this title. Requires that youth education programs, academic credit, and educational attainment certification standards and procedures under this title be consistent with State and local requirements. Authorizes the Governor to provide, from specified funds, for job training and placement programs for the private employment of economically disadvantaged individuals 55 years and older. Requires that such programs be developed in conjunction with SDAs and be consistent with the SDA plan. Directs the Governor to: (1) enter into agreements for such programs with public agencies, nonprofit private organizations, and private businesses, after consultation with appropriate PICs; and (2) consider assisting training programs for growth industries and new technological skills. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be interpreted to preclude the adoption of State legislation providing for the implementation, consistent with the provisions of this Act, of programs assisted under this Act. Title II: National Job Training Programs - Part A: Native American Programs - Sets forth provisions for Native American job training programs. Provides that such programs shall meet the employment and training needs of members of Indian, Alaskan Native, and Hawaiian Native communities and of American Samoans living in Hawaii. Part B: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Programs - Sets forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker job training programs. Part C: Veterans' Employment Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct, directly or through grant or contract, programs to meet the employment and training needs of service-connected disabled veterans, Vietnam-era veterans, and veterans recently separated from military service. Sets forth provisions relating to program conductors and content. Directs the Secretary to administer such programs through the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment, who shall: (1) be responsible for grant awards, funds distribution, and establishment of fiscal controls, accountability, and program-performance standards for grant recipients. Declares that nothing in this part shall be construed to reduce the amount which would otherwise be available for services to veterans through programs and activities authorized by this Act or by any other law. (Requires, in title III, that two percent of the funds for title II national programs be available for programs under this part.) Part D: Research, Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Training and Technical Assistance and Labor Market Information - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a comprehensive program of employment and training research; and (2) a program of experimental, developmental, and demonstration projects. Sets forth permissible research activities. Prohibits the Secretary from paying more than 50 percent of the costs of projects developed in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense to meet civilian manpower needs on military installations and in the private sector. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for continuing evaluation of all programs, activities, and research and demonstration projects conducted under this Act; and (2) report annually to the Congress on employment and training programs. Directs the Secretary to fund pilot projects to help eliminate artificial and other employment barriers faced by persons requiring special assistance. Prohibits funding any such pilot project for more than three years. Requires, in selecting pilot project fund recipients, that special consideration be given to community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness, as well as to labor unions, and trade associations and their affiliates that address nationwide concerns through programs operating in more than one State. Directs the Secretary to consult with appropriate State officials and other program aid recipients providing training and technical assistance for programs assisted under this Act. Directs the Secretary to set aside from sums available to the Department of Labor, including sums available for this title, amounts necessary to maintain a comprehensive labor market information system (on a national, regional, State, local or other appropriate basis) to be made publicly available in a timely fashion. Directs the Secretary to assure that appropriate standards of statistical reliability and nationally standardized definitions are used in maintaining such system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB), and through the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC), to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; and (3) provide technical assistance to the States for a labor market and occupational supply and demand information system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure that such system will provide young persons information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for NOICC functions under this Act. Requires, for eligibility for Federal financial assistance under this part, that Governors: (1) designate an organizational unit to manage the statewide comprehensive labor market/occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such a system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment/economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individualized career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to improve the statewide information system. Directs the Secretary, through NOICC, to reimburse the States for the costs of State labor market information programs from amounts available under this part. Allows States to combine, consolidate, or otherwise alter Federal administrative management information reporting requirements relating to employment, productivity, or training, if the Governor notifies each responsible Federal and State agency. Directs the appropriate Federal agency to approve such alteration within 60 days after receiving notice, unless such agency can show that the essential purposes of the affected Federal law will not be met. Permits appeals of adverse decisions to the Director of OMB for final decision within 60 days. Title III: Administrative and General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and thereafter to carry out titles I, II, and III of this Act and the Job Corps. Sets forth provisions for program years and availability of funds ("forward funding"). Sets aside 22 percent of such funds for use by the Secretary as follows: (1) 66 percent of such amount for the CETA Job Corps; (2) ten and one-half percent for Indian programs; (3) ten percent for migrants and seasonal farmworkers programs; (4) two percent for veterans' employment programs; and (5) the remainder for administrative costs, research, pilot projects, technical assistance, the labor market information program and the National Commission for Employment Policy. Requires that at least two percent of the amounts set aside for use by the Secretary shall be available for the National Commission for Employment Policy. (Allots in title I the remainder of the amount appropriated as follows: (1) seven percent to Governors' statewide programs; and (2) 71 percent for State programs and activities.) Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1983 to assure that FY 1983 funding for the Job Corps is at least equal to the FY 1982 funding level. Directs the Secretary to publish, and consider comments on, a plan for use of financial assistance under part C (Research, Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Training and Technical Assistance and Labor Market Information) of title II of this Act. Directs the Governor to publish, and consider comments on, a plan for use of financial assistance under provisions for: (1) incentive funding for SDA programs exceeding performance criteria; and (2) State programs for persons requiring special assistance and for dislocated workers. Requires that performance criteria be developed. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards to measure the increase in earnings and reductions in cash welfare payments resulting from participation in adult training programs. Allows each Governor to prescribe variations in such standards based on specific economic factors in the State and in SDAs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe variations in performance criteria for Native American and migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. Allows the administrator of funds in each SDAs to develop local performance criteria for youths based on employment competencies recognized by the PIC and on placement and retention in employment. Directs the Governor and the Secretary to review such local performance criteria and competency standards. Requires that each SDA annual report specify the extent to which programs meet program criteria. Directs the Governor to provide technical assistance to programs not meeting performance criteria and to propose a reorganization plan if the failure persists for a second year. Authorizes the Governor to make specified changes relating to the PIC, delivery agencies, or administrator for the SDA, after opportunity for a fair hearing. Directs the National Commission for Employment Policy to: (1) advise the Secretary in the development of performance standards; and (2) evaluate such standards' usefulness and impact. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) monitor all recipients and subrecipients of financial assistance under this Act for compliance with this Act and regulations issued under this Act; and (2) investigate any matter deemed necessary to determine such compliance. Requires States to establish certain fiscal control and fund accounting procedures for Federal funds paid to recipients under titles I, V, and VII of this Act. Sets forth responsibilities of the Director of OMB and the U.S. Comptroller General with respect to such procedures. Requires recipients to keep records sufficient to permit reports and investigations under this Act. Directs the Secretary, and authorizes the U.S. Comptroller General, to carry out specified investigations. Requires States to make prescribed reports and maintain a management information system. Sets forth provisions for administrative adjudications of denials of financial assistance under this Act. Sets forth affirmative action provisions for contracts under this Act. Sets forth administrative provisions. Sets forth provisions relating to utilization of services and facilities, interstate agreements, nondiscrimination, and judicial review. Requires that conditions of training and related employment be consistent with applicable State and Federal law and be appropriate and reasonable. Requires that compensation for on-the-job training be in accordance with State and Federal law and at the same rates as similarly situated employees or trainees. Prohibits displacement of any currently employed worker by a program participant and any impairment of existing contracts for services. Declares that no provision of this Act shall be construed to authorize any Federal direction, supervision, or control over curricula, instruction programs, administration, personnel or instructional materials of any educational institution or school system. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be construed to permit the use of any funds for partisan political activities. Sets forth transition provisions relating to this Act and CETA. Provides that, upon implementation of this Act by the Secretary, no Federal funds shall be spent for Federal or State advisory councils under the Wagner-Peyser Act or for labor market advisory councils under title IV of the Social Security Act. Sets forth criminal provisions relating to theft or embezzlement of job training funds and obstruction of investigations. Provides that, effective on the date of enactment of this Act, all references in any statute other than this Act to CETA shall be deemed to refer to this Act. Subjects contract authority under this to the amounts provided in appropriations Acts. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), other than part B of title IV, relating to the Job Corps, and title V, relating to the National Commission for Employment Policy (NCEP). Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Amendments of 1978. Repeals specified provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act, relating to Federal and state advisory councils. Amends part B (Job Corps) of title IV of CETA to make the definition of "economically disadvantaged" consistent with that of this Act and to specify that "Secretary" refers to the Secretary of Labor. Provides that Job Corps funds may be spent in accordance with part B of title IV of CETA, notwithstanding any limitations in title I of this Act. Amends title V of CETA to declare that the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, and the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will be nonvoting members of the NCEP. Eliminates NCEP functions relating to evaluations of: (1) energy shortage and energy development impact on employment and training needs; (2) relationships between CETA programs and the Work Incentive (WIN) program and related public assistance programs under the Social Security Act; and (3) CETA eligibility standards. Increases to six (currently three) the number of professional personnel whom the NCEP Chairman is authorized to appoint without regard to competitive service, classification, and pay rate requirements. Title IV: Amendments to the Wagner-Peyser Act - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act (U.S. Employment Service) to direct the Secretary to assure that unemployment insurance and employment service offices in each State furnish certain information regarding individuals' employment upon request by the public agencies operating the Work Incentive (WIN) program or the Child Support Enforcement program under title IV of the Social Security Act. Provides for a transition to program year funding, and authorizes additional appropriations for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to distribute funds under such Act to States on the basis of numbers of individuals in the civilian labor force, except that no State's allotment percentage shall be less than 90 percent of its allotment percentage for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made. Grants Guam and the Virgin Islands allotment percentages for each fiscal year equal to their FY 1982 allotment percentages. Provides that 25 percent of the State allotment be used for statewide programs and that the remaining 75 percent be suballocated to SDAs. Requires that each PIC, or, where there is no PIC, an official designated by the Governor, prepare a local plan for SDA use of such funds. Directs the State to prepare a consolidated State plan for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth permissible uses of funds for statewide and local programs. Authorizes the Secretary to establish performance standards which take into account the differences in priorities reflected in State plans. Sets forth fiscal control and fund accounting requirements. Sets forth provisions for recordkeeping, reports, and investigations. Title V: Dislocated Workers - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Allots such funds among States on the basis of numbers of long-term unemployed persons. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate any amount which a State cannot use within a reasonable period of time. Authorizes States to establish procedures to identify substantial groups fo workers who: (1) have been laid off, are eligible for or have exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; (2) are employed in operations or establishments which the employer has determined to shut down permanently; and (3) encounter long-term unemployment, or have become discouraged, and may have substantial barriers to employment by reason of age. Directs States, with PIC assistance, to determine what job opportunities, for which such workers could be retrained, exist within or outside the local labor market area. Directs States to: (1) determine whether such retraining opportunities exist or could be provided within the area; and (2) make such information available to workers. Permits Federal funds provided to States under this title to be used to pay 50 percent of the dislocated workers assistance program. Sets forth permissible types of job training and related services under such program. Provides for ten percent increases in the amount of such assistance to a State for each one percent, or portion thereof, by which the average rate of unemployment for such State exceeds the national average. Requires States to give an opportunity for applicants for funding of locally developed projects to carry out such program. Requires full consultation with a labor organization before the establishment, any assistance program funded under this title which will provide services to a substantial number of members of such labor organization. Limits to 30 percent the amount of funds under this title in any State which may be available for supportive services and administrative costs. Prohibits use of Federal funds under this title for paying wages, allowances, or stipends. Title VI: Coordination of Job Training Activities - Provides that PICs may be used for planning or advice for any Federal program relating to employment or training. Permits a Governor to combine two or more advisory councils whose functions relate to employment or training, or use one such council to perform additional functions, if essential elements regarding council composition are met, public notice is given, and appropriate Federal agency approval is received. Provides for appeals in cases of disapproval. Amends the Economy Act to permit each State agency to contract with any other State agency to perform services under federally-assisted job training or related programs if the Governor determines that such a contract will promote efficiency. Title VII: Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs - Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this title. Direct the Secretary to allocate such funds to the States, to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, specified U.S. territories and possesions in accordance with specified provisions of title I of this Act. Provides for suballocations to SDAs in accordance with title I. Permits funds available under this title to be used for: (1) employment or job training activities designed for employment or employment preparation and placement; and (2) supportive services (limited to six months' duration) for program participation and employment retention. Requires that programs under this title be conducted during the summer months. Makes economically disadvantage persons under the age of 22 eligible for such programs. Gives PICs, local elected officials, State job training councils and Governors the same authority, duties and responsibilities with respect to planning and administration of funds under this title as under title I of this Act. Title VIII: Community Services Program - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the concurrence of the chief executive officer of the State involved, to designate another public or nonprofit private agency to administer a community action program in any case in which a community action agency is denied refunding or is terminated for cause by the Secretary during FY 1982.

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with amendment (without written rept.)) Training for Jobs Act - Establishes a comprehensive job training program. Title I: State Job Training Program - Provides for allotments and allocations from amounts authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Allots five percent of such funds to State Governors for specified statewide programs. Allots 73 percent of such funds to States for substate allocation to service delivery areas. (Sets aside the remaining 22 percent for national programs.) Allots specified amounts to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and to specified U.S. territories and possessions for service delivery area programs. Allots the remainder of service delivery area program funds among States according to numbers of long-term unemployed persons and of economically disadvantaged persons in the labor force. Requires that no State be allotted less than: (1) one-quarter of one percent of the amounts available for State job training programs; or (2) 90 percent of its allotment percentage for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made. Requires that 84 percent of each State allotment be used for substate allocations among service delivery areas on the basis of numbers of economically disadvantaged persons. Requires that the following portions of each State allotment be available: (1) two percent for State education and training agency grants; (2) six percent for education agency matching grants; (3) three percent for job training to place older persons in private employment; and (4) five percent for incentive funding for programs exceeding performance criteria, including incentives for serving hard-to-serve individuals. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make State job training program allotments within 45 days after the date of enactment of any Act making appropriations to carry out this Act. Directs a State Governor, after receiving the State Job Training Council proposal, to publish tentative service delivery areas (SDAs) for the State, which will: (1) promote effective service delivery; (2) have an effective administrative agency available; and (3) be related to labor market or Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) boundaries or be consistent with existing areas in which State or Federal programs provide related services. Requires that local governments, businesses, and other affected persons be given an opportunity to comment on such proposed SDAs. Directs the Governor to review such comments and to designate SDAs within the State. Directs the Governor to approve requests: (1) from a local government with 500,000 or more population; (2) from local governments and representative businesses in the proposed SDA, filed jointly, unless the Governor makes specific findings of fact why inclusion of such local governments in a larger area will promote the purposes of this Act through accommodation of labor market forces or coordination with other SDAs; or (3) from a local government with a 250,000 of more population and representative businesses filed jointly. Provides for appeals of the Governor's decisions to the Secretary. Prohibits a change in an SDA later than four months before the beginning of a program year or within two years of a previous revision. Directs the Governor to annually prepare a statement of State goals and objectives for job training and placement programs to assist in the preparation of private industry council (PIC) plans and plans under the Wagner-Peyser Act. Requires that there be a PIC for every SDA. Requires that a majority of members on each PIC be private industry (including small business) representatives and that the remainder be representatives of local governments, educational agencies (representative of all educational agencies in the SDA), organized labor, community-based organizations, economic development agencies, and the employment service. Directs chief elected officials of local governments within the SDA to: (1) appoint private industry representatives from nominees of for-profit businesses operating within the geographical area; and (2) select remaining representatives from individuals recommended by interested organizations. Provides for appointment and selection by the Governor in the event that agreement cannot be reached by such officials. Directs the PIC, upon certification by the Governor within 30 days of receipt of a membership list and necessary supporting documents, to prepare the program plan and certify training institutions and other agencies. Requires that specified items be included in each program plan. Directs the PIC to publish a proposed plan 120 days before the beginning of a program year and provide interested parties an opportunity for comment. Requires publication of a final plan not later than 80 days before the program year. Sets forth procedures to be followed in the event of program plan disagreements between PICs and local officials. Requires program plan approval within 30 days after submission unless the Governor determines that the plan does not: (1) meet performance criteria; (2) serve the economically disadvantaged; (3) correct previous deficiencies; (4) propose an entity with adequate administrative capacity or propose adequate safeguards for funds; (5) provide equality of access for all segments of the disadvantaged community; or (6) otherwise adequately or properly carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires that any disapproval by the Governor be made within 30 days after the plan is submitted. Permits joint appeals of such disapprovals by the PIC and the local elected officials to the Secretary. Prohibits use of more than 15 percent of funds available for any program year in any SDA to pay administrative costs, including evaluation. Requires a State, in order to receive funds under this title, to establish a State Job Training Council chaired by the Governor or the Governor's designee. Directs the Governor to appoint Council members. Requires that at least 51 percent of members be private sector representatives, 20 percent be local government elected officials, and the remaining members include one representative of the State employment service agency and representatives of education, organized labor, community-based organizations, and other interested groups. Requires the Council to advise the State on job training, information, and placement. Requires the Council, subject to the Governor's approval and with respect to programs under this title, to: (1) propose substate SDAs; (2) plan specified resource allocations; (3) provide management guidance and review for all programs in the State; (4) approve of all SDA plans; (5) develop linkages with other programs; (6) coordinate activities with PICs; and (7) develop State job training report and performance standards. Requires the Council to also perform functions previously performed by any State council established by State law under the Wagner- Peyser Act. Requires the Council to review and comment on the State plan for the State employment service agency. Permits SDA program funds to be used for: (1) specified activities for employment preparation and placement of disadvantaged persons; (2) supportive services for program participation and employment retention; (3) payments to employers for on-the-job training (not to average more than 50 percent of the wages paid by the employer to participants), as compensation for extraordinary training costs and lower productivity; (4) area employment generating activities; and (5) establishing a loan fund, as a PIC-administered supportive service, for basic expenses of participants who are ineligible for public assistance or otherwise unable to participate in or complete training (such loans are to be repaid, with interest, upon participant entry into unsubsidized employment or six months after termination of training). Prohibits funds under this title from begin used for allowances, stipends, wages, or public service employment. Bases eligibility for program participation on a person's being economically disadvantaged. Permits up to ten percent of program participants to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged, if such individuals have labor market disadvantages (such individuals may include the handicapped, those with limited English-speaking proficiency, displaced homemakers, ex-offenders, alcoholics, addicts, displaced workers, teen age parents, school dropouts, veterans, and older workers). Requires that 50 percent of program funds be used for youth (under age 25) services. Adjusts such percentage by the difference between the ratio of economically disadvantaged youths to economically disadvantaged adults in the service delivery area and such ratio for all States. Requires that recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), who are required under the Social Security Act to be registered for employment-related activities, and eligible school drop-outs be served at least in proportion to their percentage of economically disadvantaged persons 16 years of age and over in the SDA. Requires, in the selection of agencies to deliver services, that: (1) primary consideration be given to past performance cost-effectiveness in delivery of comparable services; and (2) occupational skills training agencies be certified by the PIC as providing a level of skill acceptable to area employers. Requires all training agreements to contain standards on content, quality, duration, and results. Prohibits the ratio, in each SDA, of public sector, on-the-job training participants assisted under this title to private sector participants insuch training from exceeding the ratio between civilian governmental employment and nongovernmental employment in such SDA. Permits purchase of commercially available training packages for off-the-shelf prices and without a cost component breakdown, if such packages are purchased competitively and include performance criteria. Sets forth as permissible uses of funds for Governors' statewide programs: (1) state council expenses, including program evaluation; (2) technical assistance; (3) linkage with, and assistance for related programs; (4) special assistance for offenders, ex-offenders, and others; (5) dislocated workers programs; (6) labor market and occupational information; and (7) a management information system. Requires a State, in order to be paid its allocation under this title, to submit to the Secretary a job training report which: (1) the demonstrates State fiscal responsibility for program administration; (2) includes goals, objectives, needs performance standards, types of activities to be funded, designated SDAs, and categories or characteristics of individuals to be served; (3) guarantees that spending on supportive services and administrative costs shall not exceed 30 percent of the State allocation and that 70 percent of such allocation shall be spent for training; (4) beginning in FY 1984, describe how goals, objectives, needs, and performance standards have been met in the previous program year; and (5) shall be made public on a timely basis so as to facilitate comments from interested local governments and persons. Directs the Governor to use specified sums to assist any State education agency responsible for education and training to provide specified services to eligible participants through cooperative agreements with service providers under this Act. Directs the Governor to: (1) use specified sums for grants to any State education agency responsible for education and training to pay 50 percent of the cost of improving education and training services for individuals eligible under this Act; and (2) allocate such sums to SDAs in a specified manner. Requires such grants to be used in accordance with agreements negotiated by the States' agency designee as part of the SDA plan. Requires such agreement to provide for matching grants by the State agency and the local educational agency, if any, from funds not available under this Act. Permits such grant and matching grant funds to be used for education, training, and related services to participants under this title. Requires that youth education programs, academic credit, and educational attainment certification standards and procedures under this title be consistent with State and local requirements. Authorizes the Governor to provide, from specified funds, for job training and placement programs for the private employment of economically disadvantaged individuals 55 years and older. Requires that such programs be developed in conjunction with SDAs and be consistent with the SDA plan. Directs the Governor to: (1) enter into agreements for such programs with public agencies, nonprofit private organizations, and private businesses, after consultation with appropriate PICs; and (2) consider assisting training programs for growth industries and new technological skills. Title II: National Job Training Programs - Part A: Native American Programs - Sets forth provisions for Native American job training programs. Part B: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Programs - Sets forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker job training programs. Part C: Research, Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Training and Technical Assistance and Labor Market Information - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a comprehensive program of employment and training research; and (2) a program of experimental, developmental, and demonstration projects. Sets forth permissible research activities. Prohibits the Secretary from paying more than 60 percent of the costs of projects developed in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense to meet civilian manpower needs on military installations and in the private sector. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for continuing evaluation of all programs, activities, and research and demonstration projects conducted under this Act; and (2) report annually to the Congress on employment and training programs. Directs the Secretary to fund pilot projects to help eliminate artificial and other employment barriers faced by persons requiring special assistance. Prohibits funding any such pilot project for more than three years. Requires, in selecting pilot project fund recipients, that special consideration be given to community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness, as well as to labor unions, and trade associations and their affiliates that address nationwide concerns through programs operating in more than one State. Directs the Secretary to consult with appropriate state officials and other program aid recipients in providing training and technical assistance in for programs assisted under this Act. Directs the Secretary to set aside from sums available to the Department of Labor, including sums available for this title, amounts necessary to maintain a comprehensive labor market information system (on a national, regional, State, local or other appropriate basis) to be made publicly available in a timely fashion. Directs the Secretary to assure that appropriate standards of statisticaly reliability and nationally standardized definitions are used in maintaining such system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB), and through the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC), to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; and (3) provide technical assistance to the States for a labor market and occupational supply and demand information system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure that such system will provide young persons information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for NOICC functions under this Act. Requires, for eligibility for Federal financial assistance under this part, that Governors: (1) designate an organizational unit to manage a statewide comprehensive labor market/occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such a system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment/economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individual career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to imporve the statewide information system. Directs the Secretary, through NOICC, to reimburse the States for the costs of State labor market information programs from amounts availabe under this part. Allows States to combine, consolidate, or otherwise alter Federal administrative management information reporting requirements relating to employment, productivity, or training, if the Governor notifies each responsible Federal and State agency. Directs the appropriate Federal agency to approve such alteration within 60 days after receiving notice, unless such agency can show that the essential purposes of the affected Federal law will not be met. Permits appeals of adverse decisions to the Director of OMB for final decision within 60 days. Title III: Administrative and General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and thereafter to carry out titles I, II, and III of this Act and the Job Corps. Sets forth provisions for program years and availability of funds. Sets aside 22 percent of such funds for use by the Secretary as follows: (1) 66 percent of such amount for the CETA Job Corps; (2) ten and one-half percent for Indian programs; (3) ten percent for migrants and seasonal farmworkers programs; and (4) the remainder for administrative costs, research, pilot projects, technical assistance, the labor market information program and the National Commission for Employment Policy. (Allots in title I the remainder of the amounts appropriated as follows: (1) seven percent to Governors' statewide programs; and (2) 71 percent for State programs and activities.) Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1983 to assure that FY 1983 funding for the Job Corps is at least equal to the FY 1982 funding level. Directs the Secretary to publish, and consider comments on, a plan for use of financial assistance under part C (Research, Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Training and Technical Assistance and Labor Market Information) of title II of this Act. Directs the Governor to publish, and consider comments on, a plan for use of financial assistance under provisions for: (1) incentive funding for SDA programs exceeding performance criteria; and (2) State programs for persons requiring special assistance and for dislocated workers. Requires that performance criteria be developed. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards to measure the increase in earnings and reductions in cash welfare payments resulting from participation in adult training programs. Allows each Governor to prescribe variations in such standards based on specific economic factors in the State and in SDAs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe variations in performance criteria for Native American and migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. Allows the administrator of funds in each service delivery area to develop local performance criteria for youths based on employment competencies recognized by the PIC and placement and retention in employment. Directs the Governor and the Secretary to review such local performance criteria and competency standards. Requires that each SDA annual report specify the extent to which programs meet program criteria. Directs the Governor to provide technical assistance to programs not meeting performance criteria and to propose a reorganization plan if the failure persists for a second year. Authorizes the Governor to make specified changes relating to the PIC, delivery agencies, or administrator for the SDA, after opportunity for a fair hearing. Directs the National Commission for Employment Policy to: (1) advise the Secretary in the development of performance standards; and (2) evaluate such standards' usefulness and impact. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) monitor all recipients and subrecipients of financial assistance under this Act for compliance with this Act and regulations issued under this Act; and (2) investigate any matter deemed necessary to determine such compliance. Requires States to establish certain fiscal control and fund accounting procedures for Federal funds paid to recipients under titles I, V, and VII of this Act. Sets forth responsibilities of the Director of OMB and the Comptroller General with respect to such procedures. Requires recipients to keep records sufficient to permit reports and investigations under this Act. Directs the Secretary, and authorizes the U.S. Comptroller General, to carry out specified investigations. Requires States to make prescribed reports and maintain a management information system. Sets forth provisions for administrative adjudications of denials of financial assistance under this Act. Sets forth affirmative action provisions for contracts under this Act. Sets forth administrative provisions. Sets forth provisions relating to utilization of services and facilities, interstate agreements, nondiscrimination, and judicial review. Requires that conditions of training and related employment be consistent with applicable State and Federal law and be appropriate and reasonable. Requires that compensation for on-the-job training be in accordance with State and Federal law and at the same rates as similarly situated employees or trainees. Prohibits displacement of any currently employed worker by a program participant and any impairment of existing contracts for services. Declares that no provision of this Act shall be construed to authorize any Federal direction, supervision, or control over curricula, instruction programs, administration, personnel or instructional materials of any educational institution or school system. Sets forth transition provisions relating to this Act and CETA. Provides that, upon implementation of this Act by the Secretary, no Federal funds shall be spent for Federal or State advisory councils under the Wagner-Peyser Act or for labor market advisory councils under title IV of the Social Security Act. Sets forth criminal provisions relating to theft or embezzlement of job training funds and obstruction of investigations. Provides that, effective on the date of enactment of this Act, all references in any statute other than this Act to CETA shall be deemed to refer to this Act. Subjects contract authority under this to the amounts provided in appropriations Acts. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), other than part B of title IV, relating to the Job Corps, and title V, relating to the National Commission for Employment Policy (NCEP). Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Amendments of 1978. Repeals specified provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act, relating to Federal and state advisory councils. Amends part B (Job Corps) of title IV of CETA to make the definition of "economically disadvantaged" consistent with that of this Act and to specify that "Secretary" refers to the Secretary of Labor. Provides that Job Corps funds may be spent in accordance with part B of title IV of CETA, notwithstanding any limitations in title I of this Act. Amends title V of CETA to declare that the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, and the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will be nonvoting members of the NCEP. Eliminates NCEP functions relating to evaluations of: (1) energy shortage and energy development impact on employment and training needs; (2) relationships between CETA programs and the Work Incentive (WIN) program and related public assistance programs under the Social Security Act; and (3) CETA eligibility standards. Increases to six (currently three) the number of professional personnel whom the NCEP Chairman is authorized to appoint without regard to competitive service, classification, and pay rate requirements. Title IV: Amendments to the Wagner-Peyser Act - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act (U.S. Employment Service) to direct the Secretary to assure that unemployment insurance and employment service offices in each State furnish certain information regarding individuals' employment upon request by the public agencies operating the Work Incentive (WIN) program or the Child Support Enforcement program under title IV of the Social Security Act. Provides for a transition to program year funding, and authorizes additional appropriations for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to distribute funds under such Act to States on the basis of numbers of individuals in the civilian labor force, except that no State's allotment percentage shall be less than 90 percent of its allotment percentage for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made. Provides that 25 percent of the State allotment be used for statewide programs and that the remaining 75 percent be suballocated to SDAs. Requires that each PIC or, where there is no PIC, an official designated by the Governor, prepare a local plan for SDA use of such funds. Directs the State to prepare a consolidated State plan for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth permissible uses of funds for statewide and local programs. Authorizes the Secretary to establish performance standards which take into account the differences in priorities reflected in State plans. Sets forth fiscal control and fund accounting requirements. Sets forth provisions for recordkeeping, reports, and investigations. Title V: Dislocated Workers - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Allots such funds among States on the basis of numbers of long-term unemployed persons. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate any amount which a State cannot use within a reasonable period of time. Authorizes States to establish procedures to identify substantial groups of workers who: (1) have been laid off, are eligible for or have exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; (2) are employed in operations or establishments which the employer has determined to shut down permanently; and (3) encounter long-term unemployment, or have become discouraged, and may have substantial barriers to employment by reason of age. Directs States, with PIC assistance, to determine what job opportunities, for which such workers could be retrained, exist within or outside the local labor market area. Directs States to: (1) determine whether such retraining opportunities exist or could be provided within the area; and (2) make such information available to workers. Permits Federal funds provided to States under this title to be used to pay 50 percent of the dislocated workers assistance program. Sets forth permissible types of job training and related services under such program. Provides for ten percent increases in the amount of such assistance to a State for each one percent, or portion thereof, by which the average rate of unemployment for such State exceeds the national average. Requires States to give an opportunity for applicants for funding of locally developed projects to carry out such program. Requires full consultation with a labor organization before the establishment of any assistance program funded under this title which will provide services to a substantial number of members of such labor organization. Limits to 30 percent the amount of funds under this title in any State which may be available for supportive services and administrative costs. Prohibits use of Federal funds under this title for paying wages, allowances, or stipends. Title VI: Coordination of Job Training Activities - Provides that PICs may be used for planning or advice for any Federal program relating to employment or training. Permits a Governor to combine two or more advisory councils whose functions relate to employment or training, or to use one such council to perform additional functions, if essential elements regarding council composition are met, public notice is given, and appropriate Federal agency approval is received. Provides for appeals in cases of disapproval. Amends the Economy Act to permit each State agency to contract with any other State agency to perform services under federally-assisted job training or related programs if the Governor determines that such a contract will promote efficiency. Title VII: Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs - Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary to allocate such funds to the States, to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, specified U.S. territories and possesions in accordance with specified provisions of title I of this Act. Provides for suballocations to SDAs in accordance with title I. Permits funds available under this title to be used for: (1) employment or job training activities designed for employment or employment preparation and placement; and (2) supportive services (limited to six months duration) for program participation and employment retention. Requires that programs under this title be conducted during the summer months. Makes economically disadvantage persons under the age of 22 eligible for such programs. Gives PICs, local elected officials, State job training councils and Governors the same authority, duties and responsibilities with respect to planning and administration of funds under this title as under title I of this Act.

Training for Jobs Act - Establishes a comprehensive job training program. Title I: State Job Training Program - Provides for allotments and allocations from amounts authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Allots seven percent of such funds to State Governors for specified statewide programs. Allots 71 percent of such funds to States for substate allocation to service delivery areas. (Sets aside the remaining 22 percent for national programs.) Allots specified amounts to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and to specified U.S. territories and possessions for service delivery area programs. Allots the remainder of service delivery area program funds among States according to numbers of long-term unemployed persons and of economically disadvantaged persons in the labor force. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make substate allocations among service delivery areas on the basis of numbers of economically disadvantaged persons. Defines a service delivery area as any area served in FY 1982 by a prime sponsor established under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Authorizes a State Governor to designate subdivisions of a State as service delivery areas if CETA services were planned or administered for such subdivisions. Authorizes a Governor to propose tentative revisions in any service delivery area of the State under specified conditions. Allows chief elected officials of local governments to petition to have areas designated as service delivery areas either as proposed by the Governor or with modifications. Requires that such petitions be made jointly with the appropriate private industry council (PIC), or separately if no agreement can be reached. Directs the Governor to approve any petition agreed upon by both the PIC and chief elected officials, unless the Governor determines, for good cause shown, that such agreement will not carry out the provisions of this Act. Permits appeals of such disapprovals to the Secretary. Directs the Governor to approve petitions from any local government with a population of 250,000 or more to be a service delivery area unless the PIC does not concur and the Governor makes findings of fact why inclusion of such local government in a larger area is needed for accommodation of labor market factors or coordination with other related service delivery areas. Provides for dispute resolution by the Secretary if the Governor and the local government cannot reach agreement in such cases. Prohibits changes in service delivery areas later than four months before the beginning of a program year or within two years of a previous revision. Directs Governors to report to the Secretary annually on: (1) changes in service delivery areas; and (2) reasons why change was not made, if any interim area (CETA prime sponsor area) remains in effect. Directs the PIC for a service delivery area to prepare a program plan for any program year beginning 90 days after PIC certification. Directs the CETA prime sponsor to prepare program plans until then. Requires that there be a PIC for every service delivery area. Requires that a majority of members on each PIC be private industry (including small business) representatives and that the remainder be representatives of local governments, educational agencies, organized labor, community-based organizations, economic development agencies, and the employment service. Directs chief elected officials of local governments within the service delivery area to: (1) appoint private industry representatives from nominees of for-profit businesses operating within the geographical area; and (2) select remaining representatives from individuals recommended by interested organizations. Provides for selection procedures in the event that agreement cannot be reached by such officials. Directs the PIC, upon certification by the Governor within 30 days of receipt of a membership list, to prepare the program plan and certify training institutions and other agencies. Requires that specified items be included in each program plan. Directs the PIC to publish a proposed plan 120 days before the beginning of a program year and provide interested parties an opportunity for comment. Requires publication of a final plan not later than 80 days before the program year. Sets forth procedures to be followed in the event of program plan disagreements between PICs and local officials. Requires program plan approval within 30 days after submission unless the Governor determines that the plan does not meet performance criteria, serve the economically disadvantaged, or correct previous deficiencies. Directs the Governor to disapprove any plan that will not provide equality of access to all segments of the disadvantaged community in the area. Requires that disputed matters which cannot be resolved within 30 days after program plan disapproval by the Governor be submitted to the Secretary for arbitration and decision within 30 days of receipt. Provides that the CETA prime sponsor for the interim services delivery area will administer program funds until the Governor designates the PIC to do so. Directs the Governor, with the PIC if one is certified, to select another entity to administer program funds if the CETA prime sponsor will not agree to do so. Authorizes the Governor to designate the PIC as recipient and administrator of program funds: (1) if administrative capacity and adequate safeguards exist and the PIC business representatives favor such designation; and (2) if (A) the PIC and local officials jointly apply for such designation or (B) the Governor finds that the program funds administrator has not adequately carried out the requirements of this Act and the majority of PIC members favor such designation. Requires notice to local governments and opportunity for hearing such governments and other interested parties before such designation may be made. Limits program year spending for administrative costs (including evaluation) to 20 percent of program funds. Requires the PIC to subcontract at least 80 percent of funds available in any fiscal year, excluding funds used for administration and on- the-job training programs. Authorizes the Governor to establish a State job training council to assist in making decisions and determinations required under this title. Requires that at least one-fourth of State council members be PIC business representatives and the remainder represent local governments, labor, the economically disadvantaged and State or other public agencies. Permits program funds to be used for: (1) specified activities for employment preparation and placement of disadvantaged persons; (2) supportive services for program participation and employment retention; (3) up to six weeks of participant wages as employees of public or private nonprofit organizations while performing services in a regular employment placement program with a private for-profit employer; (4) payments to private for-profit employers for on-the-job training costs; (5) reimbursement of participant costs, including special long-term training needs and modest bonuses for program completion, but excluding stipend or allowance payments; and (6) area employment generating activities. Requires that 50 to 75 percent of program funds be used for youth (under age 22) services. Adjusts the 50 percent minimum by the difference between the ratio of disadvantaged youths to disadvantaged adults in the service delivery area and such ratio for all States. Bases eligibility for program participation on a person's being economically disadvantaged. Permits up to ten percent of program participants to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged, if such individuals have encountered employment barriers (such individuals may include the physically handicapped, those with limited English-speaking ability, displaced homemakers, ex-offenders, alcoholics, addicts, or dislocated workers). Requires, in the selection of agencies to deliver services, that: (1) prime consideration be given to past performance cost-effectiveness in delivery of comparable services; and (2) occupational skills training agencies be certified by the PIC as providing a level of skill acceptable to area employers. Sets forth permissible uses of funds for Governors' statewide programs: (1) State council expenses, including program evaluation; (2) technical assistance; (3) linkage with, and assistance for, related programs; (4) special assistance for offenders, ex-offenders, and others; (5) dislocated workers programs; (6) labor market and occupational information; (7) a management information system; and (8) superior performance incentives. Directs Governors to publish: (1) proposed plans for uses of such funds 120 days before the program year and provide opportunity for comment to interested parties; and (2) final plans 80 days before the final period and submit them to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to approve or disapprove the plan within 30 days. Permits Governors to request specified hearings if they cannot reach agreement with the Secretary within another 30 days. Title II: National Job Training Programs - Part A: Native American Employment Training Programs - Sets forth provisions for Native American employment training programs that are basically similar to the current CETA programs for Native Americans, except for distribution of funds. Part B: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Employment Training Programs - Sets forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker employment training programs that are basically similar to the current CETA programs for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, except for distribution of funds. Part C: Research, Evaluation, Pilot Projects, and Technical Assistance - Sets forth provisions for research, evaluation, and training and technical assistance similar in part to current CETA provisions. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a comprehensive program of employment and training research; and (2) a program of experimental, developmental, and demonstration projects (but does not include current CETA provisions prohibiting such projects from experimenting with subsidized wages in the private sector or less than minimum wages). Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for continuing evaluation of all programs, activities, and research and demonstration projects conducted under this Act; and (2) report annually to the Congress on employment and training programs (but does not require the annual evaluation plan currently required under CETA). Directs the Secretary to fund pilot projects to help eliminate artificial and other employment barriers faced by persons requiring special assistance. Prohibits funding any such pilot project for more than three years. Requires, in selecting pilot project fund recipients, that special consideration be given to community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness. Directs the Secretary to consult with appropriate State officials in providing training and technical assistance. Part D: Labor Market Information - Directs the Secretary to reserve, from specified set-aside funds, sums necessary to operate a Federal/State cooperative statistical labor market information program. Authorizes the heads of other Federal agencies to make specified funds available for such program. Directs the Secretary to maintain on a national, State, local, and other appropriate basis: (1) a comprehensive national system of labor market information; and (2) household budget data reflecting differences in location. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report linking labor force status with earnings and income. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB), to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; and (3) provide technical assistance to the States for an occupational supply/demand information system. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure that such system will provide young persons with information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for coordination functions for the cooperative labor market information program. Requires, for eligibility for Federal financial assistance under this part, that Governors: (1) designate an organizational unit to manage a statewide comprehensive labor market/occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such a system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment/economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individualized career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to improve the statewide information system. Directs the Secretary to reimburse the States for the costs of State labor market information programs from amounts available under this part. Allows States to combine, consolidate, or otherwise alter Federal administrative management information reporting requirements relating to employment, productivity, or training, if the Governor notifies each responsible Federal and State agency. Directs the appropriate Federal agency to approve such alteration within 60 days after receiving notice unless such agency can show that the essential purposes of the affected Federal law will not be met. Permits appeals of adverse decisions to the Director of OMB for final decision within 60 days. Title III: Administrative and General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and thereafter to carry out titles I, II, and III of this Act. Sets forth provisions for program years and availability of funds. Sets aside 22 percent of such funds for use by the Secretary as follows: (1) 66 percent of such amount for the CETA Job Corps; (2) ten and one-half percent for Indian programs; (3) ten percent for migrants and seasonal farmworkers programs; and (4) the remainder for administrative costs, research, pilot projects, and technical assistance and for the labor market information program. (Allots in title I the remainder of the amounts appropriated as follows: (1) seven percent to Governors' statewide programs; and (2) 71 percent for State programs and activities.) Requires that performance criteria be developed. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards to measure the increase in earnings and reductions in cash welfare payments resulting from participation in adult training programs. Allows each Governor to prescribe variations in such standards based on specific economic factors in the State and in service delivery areas. Directs the Secretary to prescribe variations in performance criteria for Native American and migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. Allows the administrator of funds in each service delivery area to develop local performance criteria for youth based on employment competencies recognized by the PIC and on placement and retention in employment. Directs the Governor and the Secretary to review such local performance criteria and competency standards. Requires that each SDA annual report specify the extent to which programs meet program criteria. Directs the Governor to use ten percent of funds allocated for statewide programs to provide incentive funding for exceeding performance criteria, including incentives for serving the hard to serve. Directs the Governor to provide technical assistance to programs not meeting performance criteria and to propose a reorganization plan if the failure persists for a second year. Authorizes the Governor to make specified changes relating to the PIC, delivery agencies, or administrator for the service delivery area, after opportunity for a fair hearing. Requires States to establish certain fiscal control and fund accounting procedures for Federal funds paid to recipients under titles I and V of this Act. Sets forth specified responsibilities of the Director of OMB and the Comptroller General of the United States. Requires recipients to keep records sufficient to permit reports and investigations under this Act. Directs the Secretary, and authorizes the Comptroller General, to carry out specified investigations. Requires States to make prescribed reports and maintain a management information system. Sets forth affirmative action provisions for contracts under this Act. Establishes a Commission on Employment and Productivity. Sets forth administrative provisions. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), other than part B of title IV relating to the Job Corps. Title IV: Amendments to the Wagner-Peyser Act - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act (U.S. Employment Service) to provide for a transition to program year funding similar to that under this Act. Directs the Secretary to distribute funds under such Act to States on the basis of numbers of individuals in the civilian labor force. Provides that 25 percent of the State allotment be used for statewide programs and that the remaining 75 percent be suballocated to service delivery areas. Requires that each PIC (or, where there is no PIC, an official designated by the Governor) prepare a local plan for service delivery area use of such funds. Directs the State to prepare a consolidated State plan for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth permissible uses of funds for statewide and local programs. Authorizes the Secretary to establish performance standards which take into account the differences in priorities reflected in State plans. Sets forth fiscal control and fund accounting requirements. Sets forth provisions for recordkeeping, reports, and investigations. Title V: Dislocated Workers - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and thereafter to carry out this title. Allots such funds among States on the basis of numbers of long-term unemployed persons. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate any amount which a State cannot use within a reasonable period of time. Authorizes States to establish procedures to identify substantial groups of workers who: (1) have been laid off, are eligible for or have exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; and (2) are employed in operations or establishments which the employer has determined to shut down permanently. Directs States, with PIC assistance, to determine what job opportunities exist within or outside the local labor market area. Directs States to: (1) determine whether such retraining opportunities exist or could be provided within the area; and (2) make such information available to workers. Permits Federal funds provided to States under this title to be used to pay 50 percent of the dislocated workers assistance program. Sets forth permissible types of job training and related services under such program. Requires States to give an opportunity for applicants for funding of locally developed projects to carry out such program. Title VI: Coordination of Job Training Activities - Provides that PICs may be used for planning or advice for any Federal program relating to employment or training. Permits a Governor to combine two or more advisory councils whose functions relate to employment or training, or use one such council to perform additional functions, if essential elements regarding council composition are met, public notice is given, and appropriate Federal agency approval is received. Provides for appeals in cases of disapproval. Amends the Economy Act to permit each State agency to contract with any other State agency to perform services under Federally-assisted job training or related programs if the Governor determines that such a contract will promote efficiency.