- (a) Job skills training is a noncore activity defined as training or education required by an employer to provide a participant with the ability to obtain employment or to advance or adapt to the changing demands of the workplace.
(b) Job skills training includes:
- (1) Customized training that meets the needs of a specific employer;
- (2) General training that prepares a participant for employment;
- (3) Literacy or language instruction, if it is focused on skills needed for employment or is a part of the job training; and
(4)
- (A) Vocational education training that continues after the twelve-month time limit, if it fits in the definition of this activity.
- (B) This includes all actual hours spent in class and supervised and unsupervised time spent in other activities required for the approved training program.
(c)
- (1) Unsupervised participation in educational and training activities, homework time, or study time may be reported as participation in educational and training activities.
- (2) Monitored study sessions may be reported as participation only if the education or training provider can verify attendance and participation.
(d)
- (1) The total study time counted for participation cannot exceed the hours required or advised by the education provider.
- (2) Sufficient documentation must be provided to the Program Eligibility Specialist for this participation to be included in the work activity hours.
- (3) One (1) hour of unsupervised study time will be counted for every credit hour the participant is enrolled and participating.
(e)
- (1) Participants must submit a TEA-1407, Participant Time Card/Progress Report, to the Program Eligibility Specialist at least biweekly.
- (2) The report will log daily hours of participation.
- (3) The training provider and the participant must sign the report before it is submitted to the Program Eligibility Specialist.
- (4) The Program Eligibility Specialist will file the report in the case file.