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Targeted Hiring Programs as an Economic Development Tool

Learn about targeted hiring initiatives that increase the participation of socially and economically disadvantaged workers in construction projects. Explore different pathways to targeted hiring and the benefits it brings to local communities. Discover best practices and resources for implementing targeted hiring programs.

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Targeted Hiring Programs as an Economic Development Tool

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  1. Targeted Hiring Programs An Economic Development Tool Blake Konczal, Executive Director Fresno Regional Workforce Investment Board Patricia Padilla, President Padilla & Associates, Inc. CALED Conference 22 April 2015

  2. Targeted hire initiatives create systems to increase the participation of socially and economically disadvantaged workers in public construction projects. • What is Targeted Hiring?

  3. History of Targeted Hiring Theodore Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Lyndon B. Johnson Frances Perkins

  4. Government Amnesia? What has gotten people back to work in the past?

  5. Pathways to Targeted Hiring: • Contractual Tools • Community Benefits Agreement • Project Labor Agreement • Contract Provisions • Institutional Structures • Executive Orders • Resolutions • Ordinance • Responsible Contractor Standards • Law of Supply & Demand • Exploring Targeted Hiring

  6. Local Hire • Tied solely to a specific geographic region, e.g. workers who live within five miles of a project. • Usually consists of workers already in the industry. • Targeted Hire • Hiring requirements for TARGET groups. • Broader, encompassing different segments of the population across geographic regions. • Disadvantaged zip codes. • Encourages new participants to enter the workforce. • Targeted Hire vs. Local Hire

  7. Riverside Community College District Project Labor Agreement Local Hire Attainment • Case Study Local Business Commitment Summary

  8. Common components found in multiple jurisdictions: • Source of funding can drive what targeted hiring initiatives are permissible. • Federal • State • County • Municipal • Lessons Learned

  9. Direct Benefits • Workers Hired • Actual Wages Paid • Local Contractors Hired • Local purchasing • Indirect Benefits • New spenders • Auxiliary job creation • Prolonged Benefits • Development of Skilled Workforce • Growth of Middle Class • Greater Spending • Local & Long Term • Economic Stimulus Benefits

  10. Willing partners and staff • Third party agreements • Union partnerships • Realistic & measurable goals • Adoption of sound and effective policies and initiatives to contractually bind all parties. • Best Practices

  11. Targeted Hiring within • U.S. Department of Transportation Administrations • Federal Railroad Administration • Federal Transit Administration • Federal Aviation Administration • Federal Highway Administration • Looking Ahead

  12. U.S. Department of Transportation Departments allowing funding of training: • Federal Highway Administration • Federal Railroad Administration • Federal Transit Administration • Federal Aviation Administration • Allowable Funding of Training

  13. Training Our Workers • FRWIB + other Regional WIBs + Building Trades • Multi-Craft Pre-Apprenticeships • JOBS + CAREERS • High Speed Rail National Target Hiring Initiative • $30 Billion in public infrastructure between Stockton and Bakersfield

  14. Funding Pre-Apprenticeships • Regular WIA Funds • Governor’s Discretionary Grant to Serve Veterans (VEAP) • CWIB Proposition 39 Grant • WIA Discretionary Grant (CVIEP) • U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

  15. California High Speed Rail • National Targeted Hiring Initiative • Developed & championed by FRWIB • Approved by CA HSR Authority in December 2013 • Minimum 30% Project Work Hours shall be performed by National Targeted Workers • Minimum 10% project work hours shall be performed by Disadvantaged Workers • Case Study

  16. Using multi-craft pre-apprentice training to turn policy into action • Curriculum – 6 weeks • MC3 (“Common Core” among trades), soft skills, physical training • Transition unemployed clients into jobs with High Speed Rail & other public infrastructure projects • Pathway out of poverty & into the middle class • Multi-Craft Pre-Apprenticeships

  17. Questions?

  18. Padilla & Associates, Inc. http://www.padillainc.com/ Fresno Regional Workforce Investment Board www.workforce-connection.com United States Department of Transportation www.dot.gov California High Speed Rail www.hsr.ca.gov • Resources

  19. Blake Konczal, Executive Director Fresno Regional Workforce Investment Board (559) 490-7100 bkonczal@workforce-connection.com Patricia Padilla, President Padilla & Associates, Inc. (714) 973-1335 ppadilla@padillainc.com • Contact Information

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