The Commissioner, with the advice and aid of the State Advisory Council and the local or industry advisory councils, shall take all appropriate steps to reduce and prevent unemployment; to encourage and assist in the adoption of practical methods of vocational training, retraining, and vocational guidance; to investigate, recommend, advise, and assist in the establishment and operation, by municipalities, counties, school districts, and the state, of reserves for public works to be used in times of business depressions and unemployment; to promote the reemployment of unemployed workers throughout the state in every other way that may be feasible; and to these ends to carry on and publish in print or electronically the results of investigations and research studies.
(Code 1981, §34-8-76, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 76 Am. Jur. 2d, Unemployment Compensation, §§ 5, 6.
C.J.S.- 81 C.J.S., Social Security and Public Welfare, § 281 et seq.