House of Representatives passes Job Training Reform Bill
Washington, DC, March 2 - Today the House of Representatives passed the Job Training Improvement Act that begins the reforms called for in the President's Job Training Reform Proposal including consolidation of the three primary adult funding streams.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Carries Positive Economic Message to Mississippi Health Care Summit
On June 25th, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment
and Training Emily Stover DeRocco delivered
an encouraging
message on the economy and the future of the health
care industry at the Healthcare Workforce Summit: Accepting
the Challenge in Jackson. DeRocco joined Mississippi Governor
Haley Barbour in addressing over 300 healthcare industry
representatives and educators from throughout the state
on the solutions developed to help prepare workers for skilled
jobs in health care.
Submitted: 03/31/2005
Workforce Innovations 2004
Workforce Innovations 2004 is back in the saddle again in San Antonio, TX! As the nation's premier conference for the workforce investment system, it's the one time of year in which we draw and benefit from the wide range of people who interact with the workforce investment system. Dynamic and provocative men and women from business, education, and our own field will have much to offer to continually improve the way we conduct business. Conference speaker and acclaimed business guru, Tom Peters, will deliver his own exceptional message. Over the next week, it's up to each of us attending to make Workforce Innovations an investment in improving the system in which we work.
To inform the state workforce investment system of the opportunity to apply for Secretary's discretionary National Emergency Grant(NEG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title I, Section 173, as amended, to provide employment-related assistance for members of the National Guard and Military Reserves who were required to interrupt or postpone employment-related assistance (including training funded by Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)) in order to fulfill requirements involving deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan or other locations.
The U.S. Department of Labor published new regulations for the Permanent Foreign Labor Certification program on December 27, 2004. These new regulations will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the program designed to help employers meet workforce needs when there are no available American workers to fill an available job.
