JFVA Implementation Seminar

NVTIDenver, CO

July 15 - 25, 2003

ETA Implementation Plan ETA Veterans’ Priority

Implementation Advisory Group

Marilyn Shea is the lead for a project with the Urban Institute.

VETS Jobs Clearinghouse Web Portal - Dave Morman from the Office of Workforce Investment is the lead.

DOL – DOD Memorandum

Returning Military Appreciation Day a.k.a. Coming Home to Work

ETAs active participation in the regulatory process.

Technical Assistance in the form of:

General Policy Guidance for Veterans’ Priority under the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002 memorandum dated April 10, 2003;

Training and Employment Guidance Letter entitled “Implementing the Veterans’ Priority Provisions of the “Jobs for Veterans Act’ (PL 107-288)

ETAs participation in JFVA Implementation Seminars

ETA Veterans’ Priority Implementation Advisory Group

Participating agencies:

Adults and Dislocated Workers

Job Corps

National Programs

One-Stop

U.S. Employment Services

Veterans’ Employment & Training Service

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management

Issues to address

Current veterans’ priority strategies

Other strategies for providing priority of service

Technical assistance needs

Jobs Clearinghouse Web Portal

Participating agencies

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

One-Stop

U.S. Employment Services

Veterans’ Employment & Training Service

Electronic Linkages

Challenges Over 3000 comprehensive and affiliate

career One Stop centers. Listing all jobs with each local One Stop

service delivery point poses a significant administrative burden on federal contractors and subcontractors.

Identifying the appropriate contacts and managing distribution of job listings complicates the compliance requirement.

Not having an appropriate centralized distribution system for listing job orders also encourages administrative loopholes that do not fulfill the intended goals.

Proposed solution Design and develop a Web

clearinghouse to serve as a single point of contact for posting job orders by the federal contractors and subcontractors.

Seamlessly post and distribute job orders to DVOPs and LVERs at the appropriate One Stop service delivery points.

DOL – DOD Memorandum

Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao and Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 7/11/03.

Purpose Ensure that opportunities for

training, education and employment are available to military spouses;

Enhance recruitment and retention for the military services; and

Assist the transition and reentry of military personnel into the 21st Century workforce.

Approach

Establish a DOL – DOD Planning Group. Tasked to:Prepare an analysis of the military spouse. Prepare a report regarding current programs and future collaborations. Develop a plan to create Working Group

Establish a DOL – DOD Work Group

Workforce Information Strategy ALMIS resulted from the Secretary of Labor’s 1995 Report to Congress

on the state of the labor market information in the nation.

The Report summarized available labor market information, deficiencies in the system, and proposed vision and policy direction for a system of labor market information.

ETA’s resulting policy was to invest in the continuous evolution of a national LMI infrastructure which would facilitate informed decision-making in labor market transactions at all levels of workforce development.

ETA intended for system development to be dynamic and evolve in response to customer-demand.

Over the past eight years, we have made tremendous advances in infrastructure development through the funding of LMI Core Products grants to states, R & D Consortia, and self-service E-Tools for public access to LMI.

Workforce Information Strategy To that end, we commissioned an environmental scan of current workforce

information available from public, private, and academic research organizations.

We are in the process of consulting with various customer groups to assess information needs – to be completed in early August. The groups are:

State members of the WICNASWA LMI CommitteeAmerican School Counselors AssociationACCRA – Economic Developers AssociationAttendees at Workforce Innovations ConferenceRISE Business – Small Businesses AssociationSan Diego Workforce Partnership, Inc.Montgomery County, MD WIB

Workforce Information Strategy We will evaluate the information and propose a strategy to the

Assistant Secretary which addresses:

The purpose of the ETA funded system,

Our process for development and delivery of workforce information,

ETA’s funding model for workforce information, and

Strategies for addressing gaps in the current system.

ETA Priority Investment Areasfor PY 03 Discretionary

Spending

Building a Demand-Driven Workforce Investment System

Focusing on Key Segments of the Workforce

Building Comprehensive Systems through New Strategic Approaches

Evaluating Program Effectiveness

Building the Capacity of Workers to Obtain Good Jobs with Good Wages

Building a Demand-Driven System

Innovative approaches to help business and industry better access the services of the workforce system

System capacity building

Developing solutions to the workforce challenges faced by high growth, high change and emerging industries

Focusing on Key Segments of the Workforce

Older Workers

Hispanic Workers

Individuals with Disabilities

Out-of-School Youth: New focus under reauthorization of Workforce Investment Act

Building Comprehensive Systems through New Strategic Approaches

Homeless Strategies: DOL member of Interagency Council on the Homeless

Rural Strategies: MSFWs are component of this larger strategy

Faith/Community-Based Organizations: Focus on system-wide activities to build connections

Evaluating Program Effectiveness

Program Evaluation: Evaluations need to be conducted of all ETA programs, consistent with OMB’s PART process.

Building the Capacity of Workers to Obtain Good Jobs with Good Wages

Literacy and Language Services: DOL LEP guidance Technical assistance and training to

workforce investment system Building connections with language &

literacy services provided under Adult Education Program

Services to immigrant populations in general

Common Measures Initiative OMB-Approved Common Measures

Effective FY 2004 ETA working with IGO Consortium and

Labor Exchange Performance Measurement Workgroup

Training and Employment Notice No. 8-02 issued 3/27/2003 on Implementation of Common Performance Measures for Job Training and Employment Programs

Common Measures Initiative (continued)

Advisories on common measures methodology and data sets expected in August 2003

Proposed September 2003 Federal Register to contain reporting instructions for all ETA programs implementing the common measures

Federal Register process completed and OMB approval of reporting

ETA QUARTELY REVIEW OF PROGRAM RESULTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2003

WAGNER-PEYSER (ES)GOAL RESULTS PROGRESS

TOWARD GOAL

Entered Employment Rate

55% First data available 11/14/03

N/A

Employment Retention Rate

70% First data available 5/15/04

N/A

Total Number of Job Openings listed with SWAs and on AJB

Target is 11,799,769

7,842,678 Within 80% of Goal.

Labor Exchange and VETS Performance Results As of March 31, 2003

Total Veterans and Eligibles from 9002B 1,239,224 Total Veterans and Eligibles from VETS 200C 658,432 Total Applicants from VETS 200C 752,213

Discrepancies in ES Data Reported for Job Seekers & Job Openings

• States reported 25%-79% drop in the number of job seekers.

• States reported 23%-86% drop in the number of job openings received.

• State registration policies and “zero carry-in” policy contribute to underreporting.

• States reported two different employer customer satisfaction scores for WIA and ES.

Discrepancies in ES Data Reported for Job Seekers & Job Openings (continued)

• ETA is considering amending the ET 406 Handbook to clarify definitions for registered job seekers and job openings to:

• Total Job Seekers: Job seekers who complete registration or receive a service with the labor exchange during a reporting period consisting of four consecutive calendar quarters. (This means all individuals that either registered with or received a service from the public labor exchange during the reporting period.)

Discrepancies in ES Data Reported for Job Seekers & Job Openings (continued)

• Total Job Openings: Count of total job openings received within the reporting period. This means all job openings listed with the public labor exchange during the reporting period. The job opening may have been listed by the employer through self service or it may have been listed with staff assistance. Regardless of how the opening is obtained, it is to be included in the total job openings count if the date received falls within the reporting period.