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Strategic Objective

Advance workers' rights, acceptable work conditions, and livelihoods, particularly for the world's vulnerable populations

Strategic Objective

Advance workers' rights, acceptable work conditions, and livelihoods, particularly for the world's vulnerable populations.

Lead Office: Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

Themes:

Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services International Affairs

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Progress Update

Overview

Progress Update

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) supports this objective.

In FY 2015, working through grantees in 60 countries, ILAB provided education or vocational services to 48,491 children engaged in or at high risk of entering child labor (exceeding its target of 28,538 by 70 percent); helped increase capacity to address child labor in 29 countries and provided livelihood services to over 30,000 families. In addition, ILAB funded model programs to address worker rights through technical assistance and provided support to improve business compliance and technical capacity of government and to protect worker rights in 17 countries. In FY 2016, ILAB will further refine its policy performance indicator to more accurately capture the effectiveness of its work.

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Strategic Goals

Strategic Goal:

Prepare workers for better jobs

Statement:

Prepare workers for better jobs

Strategic Objectives

Advance employment opportunities for U.S. workers in 21st century demand sectors and occupations using proven training models and through increased employer engagement and partnerships.

Statement:

Advance employment opportunities for US workers in 21^st century demand sectors and occupations using proven training models and through increased employer engagement and partnerships.

Description:

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is responsible for providing opportunity for workers and job seekers to attain the skills and training they need to succeed in a recovering economy. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is responsible for providing opportunity for workers and job seekers to attain the skills and training they need to succeed in a recovering economy. DOL’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) provides training and transition programs that increase the opportunity of veterans to transition successfully to a civilian workforce. The agency works collaboratively with ETA to ensure veterans receive enhanced services at one of the 2,600 American Jobs Centers around the country, and undertakes a series of programs specifically designed to meet the needs of veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce. In addition, VETS protects the employment and reemployment rights of service members under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).

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FY 14-15 Priority Goal: Increase the percent of participants who receive intensive services provided by Disabled Veterans Outreach Program specialists, with a focus on improving employment outcomes for veterans.

Statement:

By September 30, 2015, increase to 75 percent of participants served by Disabled Veterans' Outreach specialists who receive intensive services.

Description:

As large numbers of service members and veterans return to the civilian labor force, they are met by an improving but still-challenging labor market. Veterans, service members, and their families still face significant barriers to entering and maintaining meaningful employment. This is especially true for veterans with significant barriers to employment, including those with a service-connected disability, the educationally or economically disadvantaged, and veterans ages 18-24, who experience historically high unemployment.

Additionally, the last several decades have seen significant shifts in the American economy and workplace. Globalization, outsourcing, the shift from manufacturing to service sector jobs, the rise of technology, the decline in unionization, and the changing ethnic and gender make-up of the population, have changed the physical, social, and cultural landscape of the workforce. Today’s employers increasingly rely on highly-skilled workers with post-secondary degrees, state licensure, or other credentials. Veterans’ transferable skills (gained in past jobs and in the service) can help meet the needs of employers in the 21^st century.

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Provide marketable skills and knowledge to increase workers' incomes and help them overcome barriers to the middle class through partnerships among business, education, labor, community organizations, and the workforce system

Statement:

Provide marketable skills and knowledge to increase workers' income and help them overcome barriers to the middle class through partnerships among business, education, labor, community organizations, and the workforce system

Description:

As the economy recovers and job growth returns, the public workforce system has a critical role to play in ensuring that job seekers and employers have access to the skills they need to compete and succeed. The Department recognizes that more credentialing can help lay the human capital foundation necessary to support new and growing sectors of the economy. Investing in skills development not only helps individuals return to work, but also helps workers obtain the measurable and specific skills they need to move along directed career pathways, while giving employers access to the skilled workers they need to compete globally. Therefore, the Department committed to the Agency Priority Goal of increasing credential attainment by public workforce system participants. This goal reflects a growing appreciation of the urgent need for a more highly-skilled workforce to compete in today’s global economy and supports the Administration’s efforts to increase skill development opportunities for American workers, particularly those most disadvantaged in the current economic climate.

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Advance workers' rights, acceptable work conditions, and livelihoods, particularly for the world's vulnerable populations

Statement:

Advance workers' rights, acceptable work conditions, and livelihoods, particularly for the world's vulnerable populations.

Description:

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