Appendix d

New Job Counting Method

What were the issues with the former method?
The former method sounded simple enough. It required:

1. Certifying the base employment number at the location being funded.
2. Certifying the statewide employment base of the company.
3. Having the company report the created and retained jobs from the award date forward.
4. Having the company identify by individual name and job title the created and retained positions.
5. Having the company provide a payroll to document the created and retained positions and highlight the.

These issues that were encountered with this method:

• What do we do when people retire?
• What do we do when people quit?
• Can retained employees be promoted to a created position?
• Do we check job titles?  What if they are different?
• What if a company has a layoff in year 3, but over creates by year 5?
• How do we accurately track all of this movement?
• How much checking and against which documents must we perform to “verify” our numbers?