(a) In order to help facilitate the restoration of an ex-offender's responsibility and self-sufficiency, the Division of Labor shall work in conjunction with other appropriate state agencies, the private sector, and labor organizations to promulgate rules for implementing placement and training programs for ex-offenders.(b) Training and placement programs shall be intensive and focus on in-demand vocations and professions, including without limitation:(1) Professional careers and vocations;(2) Service careers and vocations;(3) Information and computer technology;(4) Medical technology; and(5) Office administration.(c) A training program created and administered under this section shall incorporate a 'Certificate of Completion' to be awarded to any person who completes a training program under this section, which shall signify that the person is competent to enter the workforce as an employee satisfactorily trained in a particular vocation or profession or as an employee prepared for on-the-job training. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5300, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 2011, No. 1151, § 2.
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