The program may do all of the following:
  (a) Perform a job skills analysis and design a training curriculum for a requesting employer.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 421.225

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Employer: means an individual, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity that employs or plans to employ skilled workers. See Michigan Laws 421.222
  • Job upgrading: means the specialized training that is given to an identified level of employees to enable them to advance to a higher level of employment. See Michigan Laws 421.222
  • Program: means the Michigan business and industrial training program established pursuant to section 3. See Michigan Laws 421.222
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Training: means custom-designed training given to prospective employees of new businesses and industries within this state; to employees, prospective employees, or both, of expanding businesses and industries within this state; and to employees, prospective employees, or both, of businesses and industries within this state that possibly would relocate without this training. See Michigan Laws 421.222
  (b) Recruit and refer trainee applicants to an employer.
  (c) Provide off site preemployment training, or on site preemployment training if off site preemployment training is not practical, to prospective employees of a new or expanding business or industry.
  (d) Enter into an on the job training agreement with an employer.
  (e) Retrain employees in response to a technological change.
  (f) Provide job upgrading training if the training will increase the employer’s total work force.
  (g) Contract with persons, public or private educational institutions, agencies, or other bodies for training or consultative services for an employer.
  (h) Provide materials and supplies used in the training process, instructors with specialized skills, instructional training aids and equipment, consultative services relative to highly specific or technical data, and other services.
  (i) Assist a foreign employer locating or expanding in this state by familiarizing the employer’s foreign personnel with the work attitudes, work methods, expectations, customs, and life style of employees who work within this state.
  (j) Reimburse a foreign employer for travel and per diem expenses incurred in the training of key personnel from this state at a home facility of the employer, and for instructional time of foreign personnel within this state.
  (k) Take other action that is considered to be necessary or desirable for the furtherance of this act.