Workforce Legislation

Workforce Legislation

Introduction

The workforce investment Act is the legislation for the provision of higher flexibility for the local and state officers for the establishment of broad based systems of labor market with the use of funds for federal job training for dislocated, Adults, youth and workers (Hopkins, et al., 2009). With this increased flexibility, there are some challenges and opportunities for the organized labor. When this act has not blocked the grant for all the training programs, the legislations make it mandatory to have coordination among a wider range of job training programs at federal state, which include the Employment services, literacy and Adult education programs together with vocational education, vocational rehabilitation and welfare to work (Decker & Berk, 2011). The goal of WIA is the provision of services for the workforce development to workers and employers through a universally acceptable, accessible and information driven one stop system of career centre (Cohen, et al., 2005).

In this paper we will discuss the major difference between Job Training Partnership and WIA. Moreover, we will study the services and programs of WIA. We will also study about the sample of youth for the WIA programs with respect to their demographics, educational background and the trends of changes in the regional background.

Discussion

Passed in 1998, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) established a Statewide Workforce Investment Board and Local Workforce Investment Boards (LWIBs). These boards guide the entities that provide services to program participants. Language in the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) mandated collaboration and identified mandated partners. Community colleges across the nation fall within this required partner group (Hopkins, et al., 2009). The goal of these partnerships is to provide programs and activities as spelled out in the WIA as well as have a presence on the State and Local Workforce Investment Boards (Cohen, et al., 2005). Community colleges are the most well positioned entity to provide workforce training in the nation. With 2.9 million students enrolled, community colleges in California provide basic skills education, transfer preparation and workforce training through the 112 colleges and 72 districts. Educational attainment comes in the form of Certificates of Completion, Certificates of Achievement, Associate of Arts degrees, Associate of Science degrees and specialized programs to meet local training and employment needs (Cebrien, 2012).

Major Changes between the Job Training Partnership (JTPA) and workforce Investment Act WIA

On job training programs provides a platform to form an employer that is developed to paid participants in order to have productive work in a particular job. This job provides information or skills significant to an adequate and full performance of a job (Cohen, et al., 2005). On job training program is the contract with the employer in public, non-profit, private and for profit industry. The participants of WIA are provides with a reimbursement in exchange of contract job training or vocational training for about 50% of the wage rate in order to offset the cost of training of employer and additional supervisions regarding the on the job training programs (Decker & Berk, ...