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29 effective administration of First Stop. DSS currently contracts with ESC to provide a job counselor 20 hours per week at the Orange County Skills Development/JobLink Center at 503 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC. 4. Applicants and recipients seeking to apply or reapply for Work First and who are not exempt from the work requirements shall register with ESC. The point of registration shall be with the ESC Offices located at 601 Valley Forge Road, Hillsborough, NC and 503 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 5. ESC shall refer registrants to job openings, make job development contacts for registrants, review eligibility for unemployment insurance and provide instruction to registrants for applying for the Federal Earned Income Credit, and information regarding The Work Opportunity Tax Credit. 6. ESC shall report to DSS any applicant's or recipient's lack of cooperation in required or optional First Stop Programs. 7. ESC and DSS may enter a cooperative agreement to provide all components of First Stop other than the required job registration. The optional components are: a. job search; b. job preparedness; and c. community service. 8. ESC shall promote the utilization of private employment services in the First Stop Program. ESC shall encourage private employment services to accept referrals of Work First participants by ESC. 9. ESC shall develop and distribute information to all employers concerning the "No Fault Referral" as the same as set forth in G.S. 96- 9c(2)b(iv) that includes provisions that an employer's unemployment insurance account will not be charged if an employer separates an employee within 100 days of hire solely for bona fide inability to do the work and the employee was hired through a job order placed ESC. 10. ESC shall distribute information to employers concerning the "Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which provides a federal tax credit to employers who hire new employees from seven "Targeted" groups which have historically had difficulty in finding employment. Recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) are included in these "Targeted " groups. 11. ESC shall, through its Labor Market Information Division, provide statistical information on unemployment rates, labor trends by country, licensing requirements, economic development data, and career projection data and other data as is necessary. 12. ESC shall serve as the administrator for the Job Service Employer Committee's (hereinafter JSEC) serving Orange County and shall utilize the ESC designated JSEC in Orange County to oversee the operation of the First Stop Program and issue recommendations to improve the First Stop Program.