• DOL Speakers' Bureau - Sign up today to have a DOL representative speak to your group.

• Employer Services - listings of DOL services and information for employers.

• Connecticut Business Leadership Network - Striving to maximize employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

• Connecticut's Rapid Response Team - Designed to ease the impact of layoffs and to assure that workers are offered a full range of benefits and services.

• Rapid Response Team/Dislocated Worker Frequently Asked Questions

• Rapid Response Session Information Packet  - Information regarding programs and services available for Dislocated Workers

• Tax Credits and Financial Incentives - Programs offering employee training and hiring incentives.

• North American Free Trade Agreement/Transitional Adjustment Assistance Program (NAFTA/TAA) - Program for workers in companies affected by imports from Canada or Mexico , or by shifts of US production to those countries.

• Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) - Administers Connecticut's Public Employer Only State Plan, enforces state occupational safety and health regulations as they apply to all state and municipal employees, and offers consulting services at no charge to any employer.

• Shared Work Program - As alternate to layoffs:  select group of workers to share reduced hours & collect partial benefits.

• Southington Chamber of Commerce - Information and business networking for the Town of Southington.

• Step Up - Provides wage and training subsidies to employers that hire an unemployed jobseeker.

• Trade Adjustment Assistance - Employer subsidy for wages paid to certified Trade Adjustment Assistance workers.

• Welfare-To-Work - Department of Labor program with links to business related services and information.

• Individual Development Account (IDA) Program - matched savings accounts in which low-income individuals and families accumulate funds that can be used for one of several allowable assets.

• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act - Federal law requiring certain employers to give advance notice of closing or major layoffs.

• WARN Reports - Monthly notifications.

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