KRS 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.