State and Local Examples
- San Diego County (CA) Job Quality Strategy: The San Diego Workforce Partnership, which is the local workforce board, structures its framework (job necessities, job opportunities and job features) based on how different aspects of job quality relate to the individual worker. The framework also includes specific job quality indicators that make up a good job as well as a guide for building job quality into workforce development.
- State of California Roadmap to Job Quality: The California Workforce Development Board job quality framework combines case making, local data, specific components and benefits of more quality jobs for each key stakeholder (workers, worker organizations, employers, communities). This framework specifically addresses how job quality can be brought to life through High Road Training Partnerships.
- State of Colorado Job Quality Framework: The Colorado Workforce Development Council, the state workforce board, structures its job quality framework on the basis of actions (elevate, create, attract) that are then tied to specific stakeholders. The framework also addresses why job quality is important, what features make up a good job and what actions different stakeholders can take.
- New York State Job Quality Framework: The State of New York launched a job quality framework to guide it's investments. The framework is organized by compensation, advancement, structure, and agency and culture.
- Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative Quality Jobs Framework: The Columbia-Willamette Collaborative launched a quality jobs framework as part of a a cross sectoral effort that seeks a regional approach to (1) defining quality jobs, (2) provide guidance on standards employers can be encouraged or incentivized to adopt, (3) identify resources to help employers implement in accordance with their workplace needs, and (4) develop a roadmap of actions and implementation steps.
Other Examples
- The U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce published eight “Good Jobs Principles” as a shared vision of job quality for workers, businesses, labor unions, advocates, researchers, state and local governments and federal agencies.
- The Job Design Framework of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions: The National Fund for Workforce Solutions is a collaboration of partner organizations that contribute resources, test ideas, collect data and improve public policies and business practices to help all workers succeed and to ensure that employers have the talent they need to compete. The job design framework centers the fund's perspective on equity and inclusion and outlines four key pillars for good jobs: core, support, opportunity and voice.
- The Aspen Institute and the Families and Workers Fund launched a Good Jobs framework which organizes job quality elements into economic stability, economic mobility and equity, respect and voice. This framework has been signed on by more than 100 organizations across the US.
- Jobs for the Future, a national non profit focused on transforming workforce and education, launched a job quality framework along with a "north star" commitment to quality jobs for 75 million individuals across the US.