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Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
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Transcript of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
• 811 pages enacted July 22, 2014
• Notice of proposed Rules and Regulations by January 18, 2015
• National Skills Coalition calls WIOA “a familiar framework” – could be called a WIA “restart” – not a whole new approach
What Does WIOA Do? • Strengthened and
simplified performance measures
• Better alignment across programs through unified or combined state plans
• Required convening of sector partnerships
• Promotion of best practices, including career pathways, integrated training models, credential attainment, and sector partnerships
4 Priority Areas for WIOA Implementation
• Sector Partnerships
• Career Pathways
• Data and Credentials
• One Stops
Key Highlights – New State Plan due 7/2016
• Ensures that “CORE” programs are coordinated by requiring a single 4 year State plan
• Core Programs include:WIA Adult, Dislocated Worker and
Youth Adult Education and Literacy
(DOE)Employment ServicesRehabilitation Services
Key Highlights – Local Areas
• States to identify “regions” in consultation with local boards and CLEOs
• Regions can be single areas, multiple areas and interstate areas
• Requires Regional planning, information sharing, coordination of service delivery, development of regional sector strategies, regional labor market data, establishment of administrative costs arrangements, etc.
Key Highlights – Local WIBs
• Local WIB membership• Majority business and business chair• 20% labor, (including a labor-management
representative), education, economic development, CBOs and core providers
• Does not require all one stop partners to be on the board
• Eliminates the youth council (but could exist as a standing committee)
• Suggests standing committees: One Stop partners, Youth Services and Services to individuals with disabilities
Key Highlights – Local Plan
• To align with state strategy• Analyses of economic conditions and labor
market and strategies to meet employment needs for skills shortages
• Establish sector strategies and partnerships• Better coordination with economic
development, secondary and postsecondary (for career pathways)
• Integrated technology based intake system
WIOA and Sector Partnerships
• WIOA defines “industry or sector partnerships” using SECTORS Act definition
• Requires state plans to describe how employers will be engaged – including through industry or sector partnerships
• New performance measure on employer engagement (to be defined by DOL)
WIOA and Sector Partnerships
• New requirement for local WIBs to “convene, use or implement” sector partnerships
• Opportunity to use Governor’s 15 % reserve to develop or expand sector partnerships
WIOA and Career Pathways
• State board must develop strategies to support the use of career pathways
• Local board must lead efforts to develop and implement career pathways, include descriptions in local plans
• 15 % funds may be used to develop career pathways programs
WIOA and Career Pathways • Clarifies that concurrent
enrollment and ABE that helps individuals transition to postsecondary education and training or employment is permissible
• Title II language promotes integrated learning models
• New performance measures designed to improve service delivery for low-skilled adults moving along a career pathway
WIOA and Data and Credentials
• Single set of performance measures across all core programs
• Common measures: employment, earnings, credential attainment, employer engagement
• Performance measures for all programs must be calculated using UI wage records
Performance
• Replaces the WIA common measures
• Increases the number of performance measures
• Changes the time frames for employment retention and wages to 2nd and 4th quarters after exit
• Industry recognized credentials both percentage and number are new
• Youth literacy and numeracy no longer a measure
Performance of Training Providers
• Increased measures +• Required to relate to in-demand
industry sectors• Training related employment• Numbers of students with barriers to
employment• Average cost per participant• Youth providers continue to be
competitively procured
Key Highlights – One Stops
• Partners required under current law+– Second Chance Act– TANF
• Partners are required to use a portion of funds to maintain the one stop including infrastructure costs• Requires Employment Services to
be co-located at one-stops
State Integration Group
• The state has formed a WIA/ES integration group) due to USDOL requirement in the state plan for integration of facilities as well as management information systems
• Maher and Maher consultants visited Gwinnett GDOL and the ARWB Duluth offices and will present an integration plan
• Complexities of metro area versus rest of state in facilities designed to accommodate more than one WIA person
Adult/DW activities
• Consolidates core and intensive as “career services” – to be conducted by ES
• “WOIA funds should be focused on training and not career services” - issue is how to correctly assess and prepare individuals for training and employment
• Designation of a business liaison – establishing networks on small employers
• Establish industry partnerships• Priority continues on low income and basic skills
deficient• Increases incumbent worker training to 20%
Age eligibility up to 24Change to 75% out of school/25% in
school funding (big change from current state focus on in school youth and the current 30% out of school WIA requirement)
20% funding requirement for work experience
Will require most local areas to change youth service plan
Key Highlights – Youth Service
Funding
• Even though 6 year amounts are included, the allocation amounts are decided in the appropriations committee
• Allows 100% transfer of funds between Adult and Dislocated Workers
State Set-Aside
• Back to 15% off the top – may mean less to local areas depending on total allocations
• GDEcD to focus on establishment of apprenticeship programs with employers, similar to Quick Start model
Opportunities to Weigh In
• WIOA’s passage will kick off a flurry of activity at the state and agency levels
• WIOA signals policy shifts and adoption of best practices, but includes few requirements, so there will be many opportunities to weigh in and shape implementation
Opportunities to Weigh In • 1-2 year transition period,
states will be developing new state plans
• Federal agencies will solicit public comment on regulations
• Advocacy on federal funding
• Opportunities to define how career pathways, sector partnerships, other strategies are implemented at state and local level
Vehicles for Weighing In
• WIOA Resource Page – www.doleta.gov/WIOA
• Questions submitted to email at [email protected]
• Town Hall meetings (SETA September 14-17)
• NSC Skills Summit– February 8-10, 2015