Rapid Response services are provided when Workforce Solutions East Texas obtains information about a major layoff. Workforce Solutions staff atempt to make contact with the company and provide immediate on-site services to assist workers facing job losses. Rapid Response provides early intervention assistance designed to assist the company and transition workers to their next employment opportunity as soon as possible.
Program Eligibility
Rapid Response was originally designed to offer services:
- When layoffs involved fifty (50) or more workers, or
- When plant closings or mass layoffs affected fewer than fifty (50) employees, but occurred in a business or industry which forms the economic base of a small community (population 50,000 or less).
Rapid Response Services must be made available to affected workers if a Trade Petition has been filed.
For additional information about the Rapid Response Program please contact Contact us.