Sentences with phrase «train displaced workers»

The package mixed economic and social spending, helping states train displaced workers, for example, extending jobless benefits and assisting with low - income housing.

Not exact matches

This could mean matching displaced workers with new careers based on their strengths or employing large - scale online training programs.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

The job training component will focus on new entrants to the workforce and displaced workers.

The bill also calls for establishing of a city - run training program for displaced drivers and other industry workers.

BATON ROUGE — Today, Governor Bobby Jindal sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis of the U.S. Department of Labor requesting through the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 for disaster related workforce training and job placement services and unemployment benefit services for workers displaced as a result of the oil spill.

Congress as well came in for criticism from a breakout panel focusing on Workforce Investment Boards, local committees of government and industry representatives established to help train unemployed workers, especially those displaced by the structural changes outlined by Groshen.

The legislation, which Mr. Reich said would be ready in the next four to six months, would also address improvements in unemployment insurance, the needs of displaced workers, and the creation of «one - stop shopping» centers for adults needing job training and assistance.

Second, using Austrian Social Security data, we show that after a plant closure, the relative employment rates of displaced blue - collar workers (with more vocational training) are above those of white - collar workers at younger ages, but below them at ages above 50.

This excerpt of a report outlines existing federal training programs that operate under the Department of Labor (DOL), including Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs, which are targeted for disadvantaged adults, disadvantaged youth, and displaced workers, and Job Corps programs, which provide vocational training and academic learning to disadvantaged youth and young adults.

We simply can not tolerate the continued existence of a federal program that has facilitated the creation of a two - tiered labour market in which unscrupulous employers are allowed to use a vulnerable underclass of precarious workers to drive down wages, displace Canadians and avoid their responsibilities related to training.

If you were downsized like displaced textile workers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina you should be trained for the new knowledge economy.