Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXVII. Labor and Human Rights § 336.045.Administration and supervision of state employment offices; regional free public offices; Wagner-Peyser Act

(1) The Education and Labor Cabinet shall administer and supervise state employment offices and perform any other duties within the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Employment Service and for Cooperation with the State in the Promotion of Such System and for Other Purposes,” approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat. 113, U.S.C., Title 29, sec. 49(c)), as amended, and known as the Wagner-Peyser Act. All duties and powers relating to the establishment, maintenance, and operation of free public employment offices are vested in the Education and Labor Cabinet, except that on or before April 15, 2021, there shall be twelve (12) regional full-time free public employment offices open, fully operational, and staffed by properly trained unemployment insurance specialists in each of the regions where the secretary has determined there is an average unemployment rate above five percent (5%) for the preceding six (6) month period ending either on June 30 or December 31. The Education and Labor Cabinet may, at its discretion, open and operate additional free public employment satellite offices on a full or partial schedule.

(2) The provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, are accepted by this state in conformity with Section 4 of that Act, and this state will observe and comply with the requirements of that Act. The Education and Labor Cabinet is designated and constituted the agency of this state for the purposes of the Wagner-Peyser Act.