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ETA News Release: [06/22/2004]
Contact Name: Lorette Post
Phone Number: (202) 693-3984

U.S. Labor Department and Menlo Worldwide Form National Business Partnership

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a national business partnership with Menlo Worldwide, a global company that provides supply chain services. The collaboration creates a bridge between the private sector and the federal workforce investment system.

“The workforce investment system is partnering with employers across the country to assist workers in obtaining skills for the jobs that employers need to fill,” said Emily Stover DeRocco, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training. “Menlo Worldwide’s partnership with the public workforce system reflects our commitment to prepare current and future generations of employees for good jobs with career ladders in growing and emerging industries.”

The Menlo Worldwide companies employ 12,000 workers to provide services in supply chain management, including logistics and transportation. The company specializes in freight forwarding and supply chain management to improve the efficiency of its customers’ warehouse inventory and freight movement. The Menlo Worldwide companies have staffing needs in a wide array of fields including forklift operators, warehouse managers, and truck drivers.

Through this partnership, Menlo Worldwide will team with local One-Stop Career Centers initially in ten states—Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Kansas, Ohio, and Oregon—to hire and retrain qualified workers. The partnership will also provide continual skills upgrading for incumbent workers, many of whom are long-term employees.

“Menlo Worldwide is proud and honored to be named a national business partner by the U.S. Department of Labor,” Robert Coon, vice president, human resources, Menlo Worldwide. “We view this partnership as a distinctive opportunity to join with other businesses across the nation to share ideas, experiences and strategies to better hire and develop new employees in our growing industry. To maintain our global competitive edge, the Menlo companies constantly strive to retain and train our large incumbent workforce in the skills needed to keep us on the cutting edge of technology and supply chain management. We welcome the assistance of the DOL in these important efforts.”

The Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration created the Partnerships for Jobs Initiative to ensure that large, national employers recognize the potential of local One-Stop Career Centers as a source of high quality employees. The Centers and their affiliates, numbering over 3,500 nationwide, provide training, education and employment services in a single customer-friendly location. For more information on the department’s employment and training programs, please visit www.doleta.gov.

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