                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VIRGINIA STATE JOB SERVICE; COOPERATION WITH U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE AGENCIES
(§ 2.2-2054)

A. The Department shall have all rights, powers, and duties with respect to the
establishment, maintenance, and operation of free employment offices in the
Commonwealth and shall possess, exercise, and perform the same through a
division known as the Virginia State Job Service. The Department through the
division shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in such
number and in such places as may be necessary for the proper administration of
this chapter.

B. The Department, through the Virginia State Job Service, is designated as the
state agency and vested with all powers necessary to cooperate with the U.S.
Employment Service in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in 29
U.S.C. &#xA7; 49 et seq.

C. The Department may cooperate with or enter into agreements with the Railroad
Retirement Board, or any other agency of the United States charged with the
administration of an unemployment compensation law, with respect to the
maintenance and use of free employment service facilities.

D. Chapter 13 of the Acts of Assembly of 1933 providing for cooperation between
the Commonwealth and the U.S. Employment Service is, subject to the provisions
of this article, continued in effect.

HISTORY: 2023, cc. 624, 625.