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P ROV I D E R
INSIGHTS
In addition to individual impacts with participants, we learned
valuable insights about the readiness of workforce training programs
to integrate this type of model and what support would be helpful to
increase their readiness.
Our survey of 74 workforce organizations across the nine
county San Francisco Bay Area focused on the degree to which
workforce programs are incorporating worker rights and job
quality programming into their strategic plan and service offerings. Although relatively few responding organizations report
barriers to including workers’ rights and job quality topics in
their strategic plans, less than a third report including each of
the topics:
• Twenty-six (26) percent of responding organizations
reported including “employee or workers’ rights”
information in their strategic plans, with barriers
including workers’ “lack of funding to pay for staff
professional development or guest speakers” and the
topic not being “aligned to funder’s strategy”.
Surveyed organizations
including “employers or
workers’ rights” in their
strategic plans.
Respondents that include
job quality standards in
their strategic plans.
• One quarter of respondents reported that they include
job quality standards in their strategic plan, with the top
reported barrier being “lack of knowledge/con昀椀dence in
teaching job quality standards.”
To examine the impact of funding sources on organizations’
approaches to workers’ rights and job quality standards, the
survey also asked whether these topics are included in funding
reporting. Regarding workers’ rights standards, 19% of respondents indicated “Yes” and 51% are “unsure” or reported that
the organization did not include “employee or workers’ rights
standards in its funding reporting”. Only one in 昀椀ve respondents indicated they are “required or encouraged to submit
job quality metrics of placed participants” by funders. City,
county, and state funding and grants are most frequently indicated as requiring or encouraging workers’ rights information
in grant or funding reports. Independent of funding sources,
38% of respondents reported tracking the quality of job placements across demographics.
Respondents including
“employee or workers’
rights standards in its
funding reporting”.
Respondents “required or
encouraged to submit job
quality metrics of placed
participants” by funders.
Respondents tracking the
quality of job placements
across demographics.
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