(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall take all appropriate steps to reduce and prevent unemployment, to encourage and assist in the adoption of practical methods of vocational training, retraining, and vocational guidance, to investigate, recommend, advise, and assist in the establishment and operation by municipalities, counties, planning districts, school districts, and the state of programs for public works to be used in times and places of economic downturn and high unemployment for the purpose of promoting the employment of unemployed and underemployed workers throughout the state, and to these ends, to carry on research and such investigations as he or she shall deem necessary and to publish the results thereof.(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall be construed as taking precedence over other provisions of this chapter.Amended by Act 2021EX1, No. 2,§ 2, eff. 8/6/2021, app. retroactively to May 19, 2021.Amended by Act 2021EX1, No. 1,§ 2, eff. 8/6/2021, app. retroactively to May 19, 2021.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 198, eff. 7/1/2019.Amended by Act 2017, No. 540,§ 10, eff. 8/1/2017.Acts 1941, No. 391, § 11; 1975, No. 609, § 10; A.S.A. . 8/6/2021, app. retroactively to May 19, 2021.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 198, eff. 7/1/2019.Amended by Act 2017, No. 540,§ 10, eff. 8/1/2017.Acts 1941, No. 391, § 11; 1975, No. 609, § 10; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-1114; Acts 1991, No. 100, § 15.
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