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DirectionsThree community-based organizations were awarded grants in 2016 to help encourage, promote, increase and support women and people of color to participate in apprenticeship programs.
In the summer of 2016, Apprenticeship Minnesota announced the availability of $100,000 in grants for the Labor Education Advancement Program (LEAP) and $30,000 in grants for the Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) grants.
Grant recipients include:
Minneapolis Urban League
Categories: grant awards, LEAP, WESA, Department of Labor and Industry, apprenticeship division
[ST. PAUL, MN] – Governor Walz today announced that the state is partnering with 59 Minnesota businesses to provide nearly $3.3 million in Dual Training Grants to fund on-the-job training for employees in high-demand industries. Over half of the grants awarded by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE) were to employers located in greater Minnesota.
Safety Lines is a quarterly publication of Minnesota OSHA and the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Its purpose is to promote occupational safety and health and to inform readers of the purpose, plans and progress of Minnesota OSHA. Visit the archive for past editions.
Categories: Safety Lines, MNOSHA newsletter, MNOSHA, Minnesota OSHA
It is in the public interest that public buildings and other public works be constructed and maintained by the best means and highest quality of labor reasonably available and that people working on public works be compensated according to the real value of the services they perform. Therefore, it is the policy of this state that wages of laborers, workers and mechanics on projects financed in whole or part by state funds should be comparable to wages paid for similar work in the community as a whole.
Categories: Prevailing wage and contracting agencies, prevailing wage law in Minnesota
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) has recovered more than $334,000 in back wages for construction workers who were not paid the correct prevailing wage or overtime wages.
Under Minnesota Statutes 176.102, vocational rehabilitation is designed to:
restore the injured worker to a job related to his or her former employment; or
return the injured worker to a job in another work area that produces an economic status as close as possible to what he or she would have enjoyed without a disability.
A rehabilitation consultation is required when requested at any time by any party and it must be provided under the disability status report circumstances.
Categories: Workers' compensation, vocational rehabilitation, retraining, Disability Status Report, qualified rehabilitation consultant (QRC), Report of Work Ability (RWA) form, Rehabilitation Request form and independent vocational evaluation, Rehabilitation Consultation form.
If you are a worker injured on the job, you may be eligible for rehabilitation benefits, depending on the extent of your injuries. The following paragraphs briefly explain the services that may be available to you.
Categories: Workers' compensation, qualified rehabilitation consultant (QRC), rehabilitation benefits, vocational rehabilitation services, disability case management
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