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Creating Jobs for the 21st Century Economy
- Since January 2003, New Hampshire's unemployment rate has fallen
from 4.5 percent to 3.5 percent.
- Since March 2003, nearly 14,700 jobs have been created in
New Hampshire.
- Since August 2003, more than 1.9 million jobs have been created nationwide.
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Preparing Workers for Careers in the 21st Century Workforce
- Job Training and Dislocated Worker Funds: Since
2001, New Hampshire has received $147.1 million in funds
from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration
to provide skills training and career development assistance to
dislocated workers and other participants.
- High Growth Job Training Initiative: The
President's High Growth Job Training Initiative is a strategic effort
to more closely tie federal training programs to job opportunities
in America's fastest growing industries such as health care, biotechnology,
construction, advanced manufacturing and others. By fostering collaboration
between employers, educators and the public workforce system, the
Initiative will help workers find and prepare for good jobs while
also providing a model for transforming the nation's entire public
workforce system.
- New Hampshire Community College
received a $250,000 grant to help train workers for jobs
in the Biotechnology industry.
- One Stop Career Centers: One
Stop Career Centers are the focal point of America's workforce investment
system, supporting the employment needs of job seekers and the human
resource needs of business. At One Stop Centers, workers, job seekers, and other participants can receive training and education, build their skills, and access federal assistance programs, while employers use One Stop Centers to help recruit workers they need for their businesses.
For a list of One Stop Career Centers in New Hampshire, click on the link
below:
New
Hampshire One Stop Centers
- Job Corps: Job Corps is the nation's largest federally funded job training and education program for economically disadvantaged youth ages 16 through 24.
Established in 1964, Job Corps has trained and educated more than 2 million
young people to date, serving more than 70,000 young adults each year. Besides
vocational training, Job Corps provides academic and life skills training
including the opportunity for students to earn a High School Diploma or
GED. Approximately 90 percent of Job Corps graduates go on to careers in
the private sector, enlist in the military or move on to higher education
or advanced training programs.
For a list of Job Corps Centers in New Hampshire, click on the link below:
New Hampshire Job
Corps Centers
Protecting Workers on the Job
- The most recent data shows that since 2001, worker fatalities have fallen by 6 percent nationwide.
- Over the
past four years, the Mine Safety and Health Administration has
awarded $142,687 to provide safety training for New Hampshire's
miners.
- In 2003, mining fatalities across the country fell to the lowest level since 1910.
Protecting Workers' Wages
- Since 2001, the Department of Labor has collected more than a half
a billion dollars in back wages including overtime for
workers across the nation.
- The Department of Labor has reformed 50 year old overtime regulations and introduced new overtime security rules that will provide more overtime protection to more workers than under current law. The reforms guarantee overtime protection for workers making less than $23,660, a nearly threefold increase over the old rules, and guarantee overtime protection to hourly workers, blue collar workers and first responders.
Protecting Worker Benefits
- Since 2001, the Department of Labor has secured more than $3 billion
for the retirement, health and benefit plans that cover 150 million
Americans.
- The Department of Labor has reformed
the financial reporting requirements for unions so that rank and
file union members will have access to more accurate and complete
information about how their dues money is spent. These reforms will
help union members police their own unions and prevent problems
before they start.
- Fulfilling its role in the Energy Employee Occupational Illness
Compensation program, the Department has awarded nearly
$300,000 to New Hampshirites who developed cancer and other covered
diseases while working on nuclear weapons and related projects for
the United States. Payments have gone to former employees at the
Department of Energy, its contractors or subcontractors, or to their
survivors.
Protecting the Jobs of America's Veterans
- Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Department of Labor
has protected the jobs of America's veterans by providing briefings,
presentations, and technical assistance on the Uniformed Services
Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) to more than 170,000
people nationwide. This includes veterans, reservists and employers.
Since 2001, the Department has completed investigations of 26 USERRA
complaints on behalf of protected service members and veterans in
New Hampshire.
Serving Hispanic Workers
- The Department of Labor's Hispanic Worker Initiative is focused
on helping Hispanic Americans take advantage of job opportunities
in high growth sectors of the economy. The Initiative is focusing
on three strategies:
- Helping Hispanic Americans develop language and occupational skills.
- Helping Hispanic youth stay on an educational path that leads to rewarding careers.
- Encouraging collaboration between employers, community colleges and the public workforce system to help Hispanic Americans build the skills required for jobs in growing industries.
- The
Occupational Health and Safety Administration has also mounted
a significant effort to reach out to Spanish-speaking workers and
their employers, including printing health and safety materials
in Spanish, setting up a Spanish-language hotline, and extensive
community outreach, particularly in the construction industry.
- Since 2001, fatalities among Hispanic workers have fallen by 11.6 percent nationwide.
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