Is Your Company Faced with Layoff, Closure, Downsizing or Restructuring?
Use our Rapid Response Services
The Rapid Response team will visit your company at your convenience and provide the following services at no cost to you.
What You Can Expect:
- Confidentiality concerning your business decisions.
- Better worker morale and productivity during the transition.
- No red tape for you.
- On–site assistance.
- Coordination with outplacement services that you may provide.
- Services designed according to your company needs.
Services for Workers May Include:
- Information about all state and federal services available to help them find new jobs.
- Professional help with job search to include Interview Classes and Resume Preparation.
- Financial planning and stress management workshops.
- Information about training opportunities.
- Use of computers, telephones and fax machines for their job search.
- Customized Job Fairs.
- Services provided at no cost to you or them.
Initial On-Site Meeting
The Rapid Response Team will meet with management and the labor union (if applicable) to discuss a plan for Early Intervention services. The agenda will include such topics as:
- types of services offered.
- dates and location of services to the workers.
- the method in which workers are to be seen for services (i.e. shifts, production schedules, etc. must be addressed).
- Information on the benefits of filing a mass Unemployment Insurance Claim.
Meeting with Workers
An Orientation group meeting with the affected worker will be held, during which:
- general information is given about the various programs and services offered
- Unemployment Insurance Benefits information provided, and
- workers are informed regarding the dates and times of seminars and workshops.
Services
Out–placement services can be provided according to a schedule worked out between the Rapid Response team and the company. Ideally, services should be completed prior to the layoff date.
Call your Rapid Response Team for assistance.
Workforce Solutions East Texas Rapid Response Coordinator
Cheryl Newton
903.561.8131
Cheryl.Newton@twc.state.tx.us
Do you need to file a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) or need more information? Please visit The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act Guide to Advance Notice of Closings and Layoffs.
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