The department shall take all appropriate steps to reduce and prevent unemployment; to encourage and assist in the adoption of practical methods of vocational training, retraining and vocational guidance; to investigate, recommend, advise and assist in the establishment and operation, by municipalities, counties, school districts and the state, of reserves for public works to be used in times of business depression and unemployment; to promote the reemployment of unemployed workers throughout the state in every other way that may be feasible; and to these ends to carry on and publish the results of investigation and research studies.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation
Article 3 - Mississippi Department of Employment Security
§ 71-5-111. Employment security administration fund
§ 71-5-112. Funds to clear through state treasury; laws governing expenditures
§ 71-5-113. Funds received from the Social Security Board
§ 71-5-114. Special employment security administration fund
§ 71-5-115. Duties and powers of executive director
§ 71-5-117. Regulations and general rules
§ 71-5-125. Promotion of employment
§ 71-5-129. Destruction of useless records
§ 71-5-131. Privileged communications
§ 71-5-133. Failure to produce records
§ 71-5-135. Failure to make reports
§ 71-5-137. Oaths and witnesses
§ 71-5-141. Protection against self-incrimination
§ 71-5-143. State-federal cooperation
§ 71-5-145. 1235 Echelon Parkway named the Henry J. Kirksey Building