7.5 Employer Guidelines

Contractors must maintain a supply of work sites sufficient to provide SJs to individuals who begin subsidized employment. The following requirements apply to all forms of subsidized employment under the Program:

1.             The employment must not have the effect of filling a vacancy created by an employer terminating a regular employee or otherwise reducing its workforce for the purpose of hiring a SW.

2.             The employment must not have the effect of filling a position when any other person is on layoff or strike for the same or a substantially equivalent job within the same organizational unit.

3.             The employment must not fill a position when any other person is engaged in a labor dispute regarding the same or a substantially similar job within the same organizational unit.

4.             The regular compensation for the job must not be calculated in any manner other than hourly wages.

5.             The job can be temporary, but must not be work primarily available in the local labor market as intermittent or seasonal employment, for which there is no possibility for the SW to be retained beyond the subsidy period.

6.             The job itself or the organization where the job takes place must not be known to be in violation of any law.

A regular employee of a worksite The entity providing an SJ and day-to-day supervision of SWs. may file a complaint with the designated contact staff if the employee believes that any of the above requirements are in violation (see 2.7.1).

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