Workforce development: one-stop career centers.

Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible unemployed persons during the period that the person is unemployed, and requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment compensation program. Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act, declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to deliver comprehensive workforce services to job seekers, students, and employers through a system of one-stop career centers to, among other things, make job outreach, intake, job search and placement assistance, and other related services available in one location. This bill would require the department, commencing on or before July 1, 2011, to provide unemployment insurance benefits assistance in at least one comprehensive one-stop career center in each workforce area, as described in the Workforce Investment Act. The bill would require that the unemployment benefit assistance services required to be provided at these one-stop career centers be funded with existing moneys available to the department for the administration of the unemployment compensation program, as specified. These provisions would remain in effect through December 31, 2014.