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So it is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, and it's a federal law.  requires employers to provide a 60-day notice to their employees, you know, and local officials and to the state. And the purpose of this law is to provide workers and their families with time to prepare for, like, significant workforce changes. So there's some little caveats there that, you know, the Warren Act applies to employers with 100  or more employees, excluding part-time. So if you don't have 100 employees, a warrant is not necessary, but you could still file one if you'd like, just to give 60 days notice to the employees.  Is there a loophole or something? I mean, I've seen businesses put up war notices after the fact is when I sometimes see them go on your website. So I guess my question is, do businesses follow this law? It all depends upon what some of their corporate attorneys and how they interpret the law. Ideally, in an ideal situation, if they're going to be, we call it ethical offboarding, if they would  give the 60 days notice so it gives us time to make, you know, and that's all they have to do. All an employer has to do is send them the warrant notice.  And so, and this is kind of where the rapid response comes in, where once we get a warrant notice, we have 24 hours to contact that employer. And what we try to do, our main goal is to talk to that employer, have us come in and talk to those employees. You know, it gives us the 60 days and we can get in there and help understand, help those workers understand what's going on and how, you know, the state is.  And the job centers are there to help them in a transition from losing their job to finding other employment. Because as we know, the bills don't stop coming. You basically try to drive them to these job centers that we have around the state to see what opportunities are out there for them just out there in the workforce then. Yes. So if an employer lets us come in and  Because also, if an employer is closing, we want them to keep the workers as long as that business is going to stay open.  And we really stress the importance of the workers to stay to the very last day. So they give the 60-day notice and they're going to close on that 60th day. Those workers will be eligible for certain programs because they are dislocated workers. So they're affected workers because they lost their jobs due to no fault of their own. So when that happens, then they're  eligible through the WIOA program for education, training, on-the-job training, and other programs. So it's very important that if a company is going to do close, they send out the warrant notice, it's very important for those employees to stay to that very last day. Because if they leave before then, they're not a dislocated worker anymore. They left on their own. And then they may not be eligible for those programs.  Do Missouri businesses know that you have this team that is able to go in and do this? Or is this a part of really what we're trying to do is raise awareness? Right. So it's every state has a team like this. So it's a federally funded and fairly mandated that every state has a rapid response team. So besides the dealing with rapid response, we go out and talk to employers and  And to get them into our MoJob system, so if those employers are looking for workers, you know, it's part of the public workforce system. And that way, we're job seekers that are looking for jobs. They can match with the employers that we have in there. So we're always going out promoting jobs.  The programs are offered through workforce development and through the job centers. So the rapid response just happens to be one of the other duties that we have. And like I said, it's a federally mandated program and every state has one rapid response team. Can you talk a little bit about what the worker displacement situation currently looks like in Missouri?  As far as it seems like most of the closures, war notices are coming from more so the eastern side of the state, whether it's the northeast down to St. Louis and down to down the southeast part of the state. So it seems like the team on the eastern side of the state, they've been doing a lot of rapid response events. And, you know, again, I know we I know we briefly talked about the Warren Warren Act about.  having 100 employees or more, but if a company has less than 100, whether it's 90 to 50, 25,  We'll still, we would be more than happy to come out and talk to those businesses that are closing or having to lay off to go talk to those employees to let them know what's available to them, you know, through the Missouri Job Center and through OWD, you know, because they could be, like I said, they'd be eligible for education or on-the-job training. So we just want to make this known that it doesn't have to be, a warrant notice has to be issued to any size company or business that is eligible  Unfortunately, closing, we'll go and talk to those workers. So Missouri has a rapid response employee transition team. It's in charge of helping Missouri workers who are out of a job due to a business closing. And Tim Dunville is in charge of the team. So let's say there maybe isn't...  a a business um who notifies you but there's someone out of a job due to a a business closure how can they um what would you suggest to them if they're interested in getting your help  If a business did close and no rapid response was done, if a worker comes into the job center, if they have something from that employer saying they've lost their job on a certain date, that should help them establish that they are a dislocated worker, which could be eligible for the programs that are available to dislocated workers through WIOA.  You know, you talk about some of the things that you can offer, education, on-the-job training, that kind of stuff, to workers who stay until the last day. So this might be more of an FAQ here. Just if you have people who reach out wanting to know what you do and do not do, what does your team not do to help these workers just to make sure that they know what you do and do not do?  But what we do is we also offer resume writing workshop. We offer workshops. Like some of the rep responsiveness we went to, we've gone to. Some people worked at that same company for 25 years or longer.  And they haven't needed a resume, so we'll have resume workshops at the job center. Also, kind of the same situation, they haven't been on a job interview in quite a while. We will help them with interview workshops, you know, career counseling, and also job search. You know, they...  When we do a rep response event, we get them entered into our system. And when they go to the job center to discuss more options, some of those options, they'll be already started their enrollment into the MoJobs. And we could do job searching with them. So when an employer comes, again, this is part of what the team does. When we go talk to employers and get employers into our system,  comes in and dislocated where it comes in. We prepare the resume and we can do candidate matching. It takes some of the keywords from that job seeker's resume and the job description from the employer and it matches and it'll send something to the employer, say, we might have a candidate for you. So we have that option when you go to the job center, when you bring your resume and we build your resume in our MoJob system, it can do all the candidate matching. And again, it also helps  with a virtual recruiter that we have in our system for employers that are looking for workers. 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He joins Marshall Griffin to share why he believes he can recapture the nomination and become our next Secretary of State. First off, if you are elected, what are your plans for the Secretary of State's office?  Well, I think when people think about Secretary of State's office, they're first going to think about elections. And we do elections well here in our state. But one of the things I want to improve upon is I want to make sure that when absentee ballots are returned by mail, that becomes a state law.  Signatures are checked on that outer envelope. Currently, it's a best practice by election authorities across the state. But if for some reason someone is choosing not to do that because they're trying to change the outcome of an election, we need to make sure that we have the law in place so they can be held accountable for that. Currently, that is not in place. I also really want to do a lot more in-depth work to make sure we have bipartisan election judges across the state. It's very hard.  in our more urban, denser areas of the state to find Republicans to serve as election judges. And in the rural areas, it's a lot harder to find Democrats to serve as election judges. And after 10 years of serving as county clerk here in the chief election authority of Green County, you understand well the importance of making sure that not only elections are open and transparent, but you have that bipartisanship, the check and balance there to keep the integrity of the elections secure and intact. And right now, that's difficult to do.  And so in 2022, when the election integrity bill was passed, I was president of our statewide county clerk association at the time, Marshall. And at that time, I, as a county clerk of someone in Greene County, wanted to go to another county to be an election judge. I had to give them permission to be able to do that. Well, we got that barrier removed in the election integrity bill in 2022. And so now if you serve, if you're in another county, you want to go serve in an adjoining county or county clerk.  to you, you can go do that without the election authority having to give you permission. So as Secretary of State, I want to be able to pick up that phone and be able to call our state party chairs and say, where do we have an area where we need more Republicans or where do we have an area where we need more Democrats and really work with the kind of chairs to be able to achieve that goal. So that's one of the areas I want to work on elections. Voter registration, keeping the voter registration roster, the roles clean is critically important.  There's some changes we can do within the office to make the program that we use now, Missouri Central Voter Registration Program, more user-friendly, not only for election authorities, but also for the public to gain access to information when it comes to elections, turnout, and some of the things voters are interested in in terms of learning what happened for past elections. So that would be very helpful, be able to change that and be able to continue to improve on keeping our voter registration rules clean.  And then the other thing that I think is critically important is business services. Making sure that anytime someone comes to the Secretary of State's office, especially those who are starting a business for the first time, make sure that not only we help them in terms of getting that license without any undue red tape, but providing them information about financial literacy. That's the number one reason new businesses fail is they don't understand financial  the nuts and bolts in terms of how to operate that business from a financial perspective. And so if we can provide that information for them, that ability to be able to do that really makes a difference in our communities across the state. Because when you're in tough economic times like we are now, small businesses are what keep the bread on the table in terms of your homes across smaller communities and the bigger communities. And we need to be able to do that for entrepreneurs and new business owners. So that's an important goal of mine. And then it's also...  important that we continue to protect our investors that's something that the secretary of state's office does is investment protection and it's really important that we continue to make sure that every time anyone goes to invest their hard-earned dollars they know that it's a safe investment if there's any questions or any concerns the secretary of state's office is there ready to respond and be able to hold anyone accountable who's trying to defraud somebody with any investment that they're investing here in our state  Election judges. What exactly is an election judge? Is that an actual public position that someone's elected to or is that a party office or a state position that the secretary of state appoints? Just what are election judges?  Yeah, I tell my friends, if I'm an election judge, you just don't get the robe. And what that means is that when you think of poll workers, our state statutes calls them election judges. So they're the people, when you go into your polling location, they're going to greet you, they're going to ask for your name, your ID, and they're going to make sure that you get the correct ballot. So they are there to watch everything that happens inside a polling location on the day of the election.  And they're bipartisan for a purpose because you want to make sure that there's nothing taking place in that polling location that would potentially throw the outcome of an election because someone is trying to do something that is fraudulent. And so that's why they're there to hold each other accountable, make sure that everyone that's coming in is receiving one ballot, voting that ballot, and then casting that ballot. And so that's the role of election judges across our state. And so when you're not achieving that bipartisanship,  people can begin to question the integrity of an election if there's any questions afterward. It's a lot easier for people to have faith and confidence when they know that bipartisanship has been achieved. And I've seen that here in Greene County in terms of we've got  A really great candidate in terms of we have a number of Republicans, but we also have a number of Democrats. And so they work together, but they're also there to hold each other accountable. And that's when you have the best checks and balances in terms of election integrity is when you have that bipartisanship achieved.  You're listening to Show Me Today. This is Marshall Griffin. We're speaking with Shane Schoeller. He's the county clerk for Greene County. He's also a former member of the Missouri House, former House Speaker Roe Tim. He's running for Secretary of State and actually ran for Secretary of State in 2012 as well. Now, let me ask this. One of the candidates that  that we interviewed earlier brought up making sure that we only use paper ballots and that we and that they not be connected to any type of database with access to the internet as a measure of security what are your thoughts on how to best secure election results  Well, I've always been a firm believer in paper ballot because you always want a paper trail. For example, the election equipment we have here in Greene County, we went to purchase that in late 2017, early 2018. I had a community, I've worked with our community in terms of a panel that came together to be able to experience the election equipment before we purchased it. But one of the key things that I focused in on was making sure there was no connectivity to the internet.  And so that is a critical priority for any election official to make sure that cannot happen. But as I tell folks, it's not just potentially having the software hacked. You can have human error, right? I mean, someone could potentially program the software wrong in terms of reading the ballot coding and have an outcome different than how the voters vote. But that's why right now, today, we're actually testing our election equipment. It's called an accuracy and logic test program.  We're actually going through testing different variations of how that ballot can be tabulated to make sure it's accurate.  Then after the election, we will do that again, but then we also do no less than 5% of the polling locations. We will randomly draw them on the night of the election, and then we will go through, and for this August election, we're going to do a hand count for a statewide race, and again, that's randomly drawn. We'll hand count a legislative race, either for Congress and the Zurich General Assembly. We'll hand count one for our county, and again, all those are randomly drawn. We'll hand count one for...  for the judiciary race as well, if you have any judiciary selections on your ballot, and then we hand count one for an issue as well. All those are randomly drawn, they're hand counted by bipartisan teams, and then they're compared to what the,  information on the night of the election in terms of tabulation from that machine, we compare that tape that printed to the hand count to make sure that that machine was accurately tabulating. And for some people who believe that hand counting is better than the machines, I try to remind them that, unfortunately, we had a history in our state where hand counting was actually fraudulent. It was highly susceptible to fraud.  Another aspect of the Secretary of State's job is to validate language on ballot measures. And there's been a bit of a history of past and even the current Secretary of State being challenged over the language used.  used for some ballot measures, basically with the sponsor saying, no, you're twisting the language to make sure that voters say no to this. What's your position as far as ballot language? Do you think that the presenters of the ballot measure should have the language as they present it?  I think that we need to take a look at that. Matter of fact, when I ran for it last time in 2012, I offered a measure that would allow essentially a bipartisan committee come together and work on that language. Because I think one of the challenges you're always going to have is whoever is the Secretary of State, there's going to be some distrust that is applied to any ballot language that's put forth before the voters. I do think the ballot language could be a little bit longer sometimes. I think the limit of words really affects that.  But I think we need to come together and see if there's an opportunity to bring Republicans, Democrats and potentially independents together to look at the ballot language and hopefully be able to come up with agreed upon language. And if not, as we know, there's always the opportunity to go to the court, as we see now, and present that to a judge if you don't disagree. But I think there's always going to be some level of distrust there.  regardless of who's the secretary of state when that ballot language is written so this is an opportunity to have that discussion and see if we can't bring together an effort that hopefully has more people in the room that present their different perspectives in terms of how that ballot language is written and hopefully come together and agree upon language that the voters can see when they vote on the day of the election because currently as you know  Bowel language is constantly challenged in the courts, and that's a cost to the taxpayers, as you well know. Anytime a secretary of state has to go defend that language, there's a cost to the taxpayers. So that's one potential opportunity solution that I've put forth that I would like to at least have for consideration as we think through important things like bowel language.  As you know, there's a lot of legislation that's often packed into that 50-word summary. 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