FRANKFORT Members of the Kentucky General Assembly amended Senate Bill 146 to include a version of 100th District Representative Scott Sharpâs proposal to require regional public employment offices to open when an areaâs unemployment rate is above 5% for the preceding six-month period, according to a release.
Sharpâs language calls for 12 regional, full-time offices and grants the Labor Cabinet the ability to open and operate additional satellite offices on a full- or part-time schedule.
âI am extremely pleased to see this bill pass the legislature and appreciate that my colleagues in the House and Senate recognized this issue for how important it is,â Sharp added. âThousands of Kentuckians found themselves unemployed and under-employed as a result of this pandemic and the stateâs response to it. It was completely out of their control and out of the employerâs control, but the end result was the same â a system designed to help a ân