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"Helping Dislocated Workers
Find Jobs"
State of California Employment
Development Department (CAEDD)
Summary
Workers at Boeing's Monrovia, California
plant faced mass layoffs as Boeing prepared to close the plant in response
to changing business needs. Management and workers teamed with the California
Employment Development Department (CAEDD) to identify workers' skills and
match those skills with available jobs.
Here's what happened:
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CAEDD staff used O*NET's Skills Survey to
interview workers and identify the skills workers used in their jobs.
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CAEDD staff also briefed Boeing employees
on O*NET and its use.
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CAEDD staff used the worker skill surveys,
the O*NET database, and state and local labor market information to produce
a report specifically tailored to Boeing's Monrovia employees.
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The report, entitled Skills Match: Use
Your Boeing Skills to Land a New Job, was provided to all Boeing Monrovia
workers.
O*NET was essential to producing the Skills
Match report. O*NET provided the occupational profiles that allowed
Boeing workers to see what kinds of jobs they would qualify for and to
start thinking about jobs outside of aircraft manufacturing that matched
their skills sets.
CAEDD plans to use the Skills Match
reports for all clients, not just for those facing mass lay off. In addition,
the Sacramento SDA (Service Delivery Area) plans to give the AFB reports
to others in their service area who have occupations similar to those from
the base. CAEDD will follow-up on a sample of these to see if the intervention
works.
How
is O*NET being used?
O*NET's data collection instruments were
used first; then, the O*NET viewer and profile/detail reports were used
to prepare the Skills Match report for workers.
Who
is your target population?
The immediate target audience for this
project was workers facing dislocation at Boeing's Monrovia plant.
However, the model used is replicable in
other States and localities and in different dislocated worker situations.
The model is being used in other Boeing plants and at the McClellan Air
Force Base in California.
What
kind of results is O*NET helping you to achieve?
This project expanded services to dislocated
workers by creating a new model for use in mass layoff situations.
This project also saved time for
workers. Forty percent of those targeted for layoff were able to locate
jobs in other Boeing plants within 3 months of the beginning of the project
(March - June 1998).
This project helped place 385 Boeing
workers in jobs at other Boeing facilities before they were
laid off. Although other staff faced lay off through a reduction in force,
they approached the job search well-armed with information about their
skills, and how those skills transfer to other occupations.
What
are the related program initiatives?
Workforce Investment Act and dislocated
workers.
Is
your product, program or service available for others to use?
Copies of Skills Match are available
from CAEDD, Labor Market Information Division, 7000 Franklin Blvd., Bldg.
1100, Sacramento, CA 95823 phone: 916-262-2368
An automated version is currently being
developed for integration into the One Stop system for use by other companies
facing layoffs.
What
other strategies make your product, program or service successful?
Others may want to consider these lessons
learned when implementing a dislocated worker assistance program:
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Employer/management support for assistance
activity is critical for success, as is support of local labor unions,
if present.
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Open lines of communication are needed with
the targeted displaced worker population.
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O*NET training is needed. While O*NET was
available at the factory for workers to use themselves, they were not taught
how to use it or how it could help them.
Other
pertinent information.
O*NET training is needed. While O*NET was
available at the factory for workers to use themselves, they were not taught
how to use it or how it could help them.
The Boeing Skills Match model was
featured in an O*NET/WIA Workshop at JETTCON 99.
Contact
information.
Janet Peters, Manager, Occupational Research Unit
State of California, Employment Development Department (EDD)
Labor Market Information Division
7000 Franklin Blvd., Bldg. 1100
Sacramento, CA 95823
Phone: 916-262-2368
Fax: 916-262-2352
Email: lmid.jpeters@edd.ca.gov
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