Dear Worksite Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in supporting our youth in Wilmington, NC this summer! The Summer Employment Program is a program of Voyage and Kids Making It (KMI) with partner Step Up Wilmington.

Completion of this Worksite Agreement and Application is the first step in participating in the 2021 Voyage Summer Employment Program.

In order to become a worksite, you will need to:

·Provide an original or PDF from your insurer of a current Certificate of General Liability Insurance naming Voyage as a certificate holder. This is a simple process that is easily accomplished by a call to your liability insurance carrier. Please have your insurer address the Certificate Holder to:

Voyage

Summer Employment Program

P.O. Box 591

Wilmington, NC 28402

·Staff supervising program participants will need to schedule an orientation with Voyage prior to youth arriving for work.

This Agreement is made between Voyage (Non-profit partner), and ________________________________________________________________ (Worksite),

a □ public    □ non-profit   or □ private for-profit business or organization

to provide subsidized work experience to eligible Job Seekers/ Young Adults participating in the Summer Employment Program. Under this Agreement, participants will be provided short-term paid work experience which is valuable and meaningful for both the participant and the organization/worksite.

Paid Work Experience will be consistent with each participant’s capabilities and interests and in an occupational field or specific job in which he/she has minimal or no prior work experience. The Work Experience is expected to aid in the development of skills and work habits that will assist the participant in obtaining unsubsidized employment.

This agreement will take effect during the Summer 2021 program.

1. There will be sufficient, meaningful work to keep SEP participants fully occupied during work hours;

2. Work will be conducted in a safe work environment;

3. There will be adequate full-time supervision of each SEP participant by qualified supervisors;

4. Voyage will obtain Worker’s Compensation Insurance to cover all SEP participants engaged in work experience at a worksite;

5. The participating Worksite will notify SEP Service Provider staff if difficulties arise which the Worksite supervisor and participant are unable to resolve. SEP staff will attempt to find a mutually satisfactory solution. The SEP staff and/or Worksite supervisor may recommend termination or transfer of the participant if the situation or problem is not resolved;

6. There will be adequate oversight and review of each participant’s time and attendance;

7. There will be sufficient equipment and/or materials provided to carry out assignments;

8. This agreement will be maintained at the Worksite and available for review by federal, state, local area and SEP Service Provider representatives;

9. All requirements and regulations governing the SEP program will be upheld;

10. SEP participant shall be allowed to participate in employability and workplace skills instruction with the SEP Service Provider.

11. Worksite supervisors will adhere to existing State and Federal labor standards.

12. No SEP participant shall be employed or job opening filled (A) when any other individual is on layoff from the same or any substantially equivalent job, or (B) when the Worksite has terminated the employment of any regular employee or otherwise reduced its workforce with the intention of filling the vacancy so created by hiring a participant whose wages are subsidized under this Act;

13. Equal Employment Opportunity and Nondiscrimination. The Worksite assures that no person on the grounds of race, creed, color, disability, national origin, sex, age, political affiliation, or beliefs, will be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under the Workforce Investment Act or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

A written job or project description must be attached to this Agreement. The job or project description must include:

1. An accurate description of the required duties and responsibilities

2. The days and hours to be worked

3. If the SEP participant’s job duties at the Worksite change, the Worksite agrees to notify the SEP Service Provider immediately so that this agreement may be modified.

For questions regarding this application please email Program Coordinator, Cordia Sloan at cordia.sloan@voyagewilmington.org or Jessica Petty at Jessicapetty.voyage@gmail.com 

The Summer Employment participants have liability insurance and workman’s comp coverage through the collaboration of Voyage, Kids Making It, and Step Up Wilmington.