JobQuest is provided by the Massachusetts Division of Career Services to match job seekers with employers. JobQuest is relevant for both Job Seekers and Employers. (More information...)

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as amended by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 provides a means for agricultural employers to apply for permission to bring into the US nonimmigrant aliens to perform agricultural labor or services of a temporary or seasonal nature. (more information ...)

Section 212(a)(14) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that certain aliens may obtain a visa for entrance into the US in order to engage in permanent/temporary employment if the Secretary of Labor has first certified. (more information ...)

To better serve our customer needs, DCS has designed and implemented an e-mail process for requesting, receiving and issuing prevailing wage determinations. Please follow the instructions in the files listed below:

Connecting Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claimants to Career Centers is an initiative to ensure that the One Stop Career Centers are the entry-point for re-employment services for all permanently separated UI claimants. (more information ...)

The Disability Program Navigator is a three year demonstration project which is jointly funded by the Department of Labor and the Social Security Administration. There are 15 Disability Program Navigators within the One-Stop Career Centers across the state who provide employment, outreach, education, support services to individuals with disabilities. (more information ...)

The Employment Service program is designed to provide job seekers assistance in finding employment, as well as access to other career services within the One Stop Career Centers.

The Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) is an Internet-based interactive software system that provides occupational, labor market, and educational information to help Bay Staters make better-informed career and educational choices. (more information ...)

National Emergency Grants (NEG) are federal grants, which provide funds to assist workers affected by major economic dislocations such as workforce reductions and company closings. The grants are written for specific industries, companies or clusters of companies that are closing or implementing downsizing initiatives of significant proportion. (more information ...)

The Rapid Response team provides pre layoff outplacement services and information for employers and employees affected by company closings and layoffs. (more information ...)

Reentry Reemployment offer assistance to ex prisoners with finding employment and training. (more information ...)

The Skill Start Program provides short-term job search and training services for targeted Food Stamp recipients through the One Stop Career Center System. (more information ...)

The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program is designed to assist individuals who become unemployed as a result of increased imports or transfer of production to foreign countries to reemployment services and allowances through the One Stop Career Center system. (more information ...)

The VETS program provides dedicated Veterans' Services staff within each One Stop Career Center to ensure that the veteran customers receive priority of service within the One Stop Career Center. All career center veteran customers are "case managed" to optimize service levels. (more information ...)

The Workforce Investment Act provides training and employment services to job seekers at One-Stop Career Centers for disadvantaged adults and for workers permanently separated from employment due to individual layoffs, mass layoffs or plant closings. (more information ...)

The WOTC provides an employer with a tax credit of up to $2,400 for each new hire that falls within the specified targeted groups identified within WOTC regulations. The WTW Tax Credit provides employers with a credit for up to $8,500 for each new hire that is a member of a family that has received Temporary Assistance For Dependent Children TAFDC for at least 18 consecutive months ending on the date of hire. (more information ...)

The Workforce Training Fund is an employer-funded program that provides grant funds to Massachusetts employers to upgrade the skills of their current or newly hired employees. (more information ...)

The Youth with Disabilities program a five-year demonstration grant that focuses on services for youth with disabilities as their transition from school to work. This grant has established a new cross-agency, state-level council that has representation by from all organizations that serve youth with disabilities between the ages of 16 and 24. The primary objective of this grant is to improve employment outcomes for youth with disabilities and to develop a resource mapping plan at the state and local level. (more information ...)