Annie Sakaguchi is president and Chuck Forster is executive director of the Lane Workforce Partnership, which operates Lane County's
work force development program.
Apart from the numbers game, the contingent
work force myth becomes even more apparent when you look closely at who fits into the categories of part-time, self-employed, business services, and temps.
Organizing a part-time
work force and keeping it organized is a constant struggle, Denier says.
Strengthening program linkages between the Office of Vocational and Adult Education and the Rehabilitation Services Administration will be an important key towards enabling the 43 million Americans with disabilities to be productive members of the nation's
work force.
The advisory council and the
Work Force Committee have been exploring ways to keep members informed about the impending
work force crisis during periods between ACA conferences.
Schools and programs of public health in the United States will play a key role in building capacity globally, said APHA member Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH, dean of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health and chair of the Association of Schools of Public Health's
Work Force Taskforce.
In terms of demographics, the prognosticators point out, aging
work forces across the developed world will create an enormous burden for CEOs in paying retiree benefits.
Our perceptions of the world of business - organization, management, leadership, the
work force - are also being transformed, with profound consequences for those of us who try to help others make sense of a world turned upside down.
The company not only recruits and hires a diverse
work force, but it provides management training and promotional opportunities to women and minorities through its Partners in Progress program.
Therefore, the assembled
work force represents going-concern value, which has been regarded as not having an ascertainable useful life.
With nearly one-third of its female
work force consisting of Latinas, LATINA Style praised SCE for achieving such diversity in the traditionally male-dominated utility industry.
Work force issues continue to be at the forefront of the corrections agenda.
