New Report: Workforce Investment Act and Contingent Workforce

Posted by on June 20, 2003

On June 2, the National Training and Information Center released a new report called “Short Term Pay, Long Term Struggles: WIA and the Contingent Workforce.”

To get a copy of the report, please go to:
http://www.ntic-us.org/issues/issues.htm (Scroll down to Jobs)

The report examines how the growing temporary and day labor industry provides little in terms of creating stable long-term employment opportunities for workers. The report also highlights how the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) is a road map out of these abusive environments. The report presents recommendations that strengthens and reforms WIA in ways that will provide innovative solutions to increase workers wages and their spending potential. The report also documents how many workers enter the WIA system to find the pathway out of poverty towards livable wage jobs, but discover that the national policy is not implemented properly in cities across the country.

For more information, please call:
Tracy Van Slyke
Communications Director, National Training and Information Center
312-243-3035
[email protected]
http://www.ntic-us.org