102 Leading Practices
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Job quality framework with implications for vendors: SW Washington
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Safety and Security
High Road Training Programs: San Diego, California
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Living wage policies, On the Job Trainings (OJTs)
Educating communities on occupational segregation and workers rights: Chicago, Illinois
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Worker rights
Training pathways for underserved individuals: New York City, New York
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Learning and Development
- Strategy: Training pathways for underserved individuals
Principal recruitment and retention: Prince George’s County, Maryland
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Learning and Development
- Strategy: Training pathways for underserved individuals
Employer housing supports: Twin Cities, Minnesota
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Benefits
- Strategy: Employer offered benefits
Awareness campaigns on workers rights: New Jersey
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Safety and Security, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Worker rights
Strategic co-enforcement work with local nonprofits: San Francisco, California
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Earnings, Safety and Security
- Strategy: Strategic enforcement
Worker rights as part of job readiness: Chicago, Illinois
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Safety and Security, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Worker rights
One stop shop for workers right information: Wyoming
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Voice and Representation, Safety and Security
- Strategy: Worker rights
Certifying living wage employers to educate and enforce JQ practices: Orange County, California
- Levers: Education and Enforcement, Policy
- Principles: Benefits, Earnings
- Strategy: Worker rights, Living wage policies
Educating workers on on quality and what it means to them; San Diego, California
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Learning and Development, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Worker rights
Financial literacy and access as mechanism for worker power: Louisville, Kentucky
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Environment and Culture
- Strategy: Financial literacy and empowerment
Employee engagement surveys: Novi, Michigan
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Environment and Culture, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Employee engagement surveys
Human centered design for program development: Spokane, Washington
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Data collection and transparency
Education quality outcomes standard to track progress: New Jersey
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Earnings, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Data collection and transparency
Transition to employee ownership using the Employee Stock Ownership Plan: National
- Levers: Empowerment
- Strategy: Employee ownership models
Project Labor Agreement to create construction pathways for underrepresented individuals: Long Beach, California
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Schedules, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Project labor agreements
Statewide workforce plan drives job quality policy: Michigan
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits, Learning and Development
Living wages through Customized Training Agreements: Northern Virginia
- Levers: Policy, Procurement
- Principles: Earnings
- Strategy: Living wage policies, Customized Trainings
Self sufficiency wages as a Customized Training requirement: San Diego, California
- Levers: Policy, Procurement
- Principles: Earnings
- Strategy: Living wage policies, Customized Trainings
OJT policies that require benefits and trainee/trainer ratios: Yakima County, Washington
- Levers: Policy, Procurement
- Principles: Safety and Security, Benefits
- Strategy: Benefits (PTO and medical) protections, On the Job Trainings (OJTs)
Increased paid sick leave: California
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Benefits
- Strategy: Benefits (PTO and medical) protections
Paid vacation for gig workers: Seattle, Washington
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Benefits
- Strategy: Benefits (PTO and medical) protections
Prevailing wage for construction projects: Maine
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Earnings
- Strategy: Prevailing wage policy
Living wage ordinance: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Earnings
- Strategy: Living wage policies
Boosting pay for food delivery workers: New York City, New York
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Earnings
- Strategy: Living wage policies
Heat protection ordinance for contractors: Phoenix, Arizona
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Safety and Security
- Strategy: Heat protection policies
Construction worker rest break ordinance: Austin, Texas
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Safety and Security
- Strategy: Rest break policies
Local hire policy: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Schedules
- Strategy: Local hire policy
Fair workweek ordinance: Evanston, Illinois
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Schedules
- Strategy: Scheduling policies
Responsible bidder ordinance: Kane County, Illinois
- Levers: Policy, Procurement
- Principles: Safety and Security, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Proposals/Contracts, Responsible bidder requirements
Industry-specific wage subsidies initiative: San Antonio, Texas
- Levers: Procurement, Policy
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Living wage policies, On the Job Trainings (OJTs)
Living wage career readiness preparation for young adults in green workforce: Boston, Massachusetts
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Living wage policies, Training pathways for underserved individuals
Using evidence-based practices to advance job quality: Texas
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Proposals/Contracts
Providing living wage pathways to underserved individuals: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Levers: Procurement, Policy
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Living wage policies, Proposals/Contracts
Evaluation of respondents based on DOL job quality principles: National
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Proposals/Contracts
Using Community Benefits Agreements to uplift workers: Alabama/California
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Benefits, Earnings
- Strategy: Vendor and contractor standards
Collecting job quality data through youth RFP process: San Diego, California
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Vendor and contractor standards
High road standards for workforce program reimbursements: New York
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Vendor and contractor standards
Wage requirements for placements of underserved individuals: New York, New York
- Levers: Procurement, Policy
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Living wage policies, Vendor and contractor standards
Living wage considerations for youth services: Boston, Massachusetts
- Levers: Procurement, Policy
- Principles: Earnings, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Living wage policies, Vendor and contractor standards
RFP centered around DOL good job standards: National
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Safety and Security
- Strategy: Proposals/Contracts, Vendor and contractor standards
Good jobs requirements in DOT procurements: National
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits
- Strategy: Proposals/Contracts, Vendor and contractor standards
Private Health Company Job Quality Measurement and KPIs: Ohio
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits
- Strategy: Proposals/Contracts, Vendor and contractor standards
Measuring job quality to drive attraction, retention and growth: Ohio
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits
- Strategy: Data collection and transparency
Executive order on truth, reconciliation and reparations: Providence, Rhode Island
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Safety and Security, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Data collection and transparency
Youth Workforce Services RFP: San Diego County, California
- Levers: Procurement
- Principles: Voice and Representation, Learning and Development
State of California High Road Training Partnerships
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits, Schedules, Learning and Development, Safety and Security, Voice and Representation, Environment and Culture, Purpose and Meaning
Labor Standards and Enforcement Division: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Benefits, Learning and Development
- Strategy: Labor standards
A multi-faceted, multilingual education and enforcement approach: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Levers: Education and Enforcement
- Principles: Safety and Security, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Strategic enforcement
Family friendly workplace ordinance: San Francisco, California
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Schedules
- Strategy: Benefits (PTO and medical) protections
Secure scheduling law: Seattle, Washington
- Levers: Policy
- Strategy: Scheduling policies
Renewable learning fund to expand eligibility criteria: San Diego, CA
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Learning and Development
Blending philanthropic and state funding: New Jersey
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Learning and Development
WIOA and Union Apprenticeship Partnerships: Maricopa County (AZ)
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Learning and Development
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits, Learning and Development, Safety and Security, Voice and Representation
Employer-provided housing subsidies for government workers: Baltimore, Maryland
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Benefits
- Strategy: Employer offered benefits
Jobseeker trainings on personal values and strengths: San Diego County (CA)
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Purpose and Meaning, Learning and Development
Essential worker board provides worker power: Harris County, Texas
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Learning and Development, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Worker boards
Small Business Transitions to Employee Ownership: North Coast Region, CA
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Learning and Development, Voice and Representation
Subsidizing employee ownership feasibility studies with federal funds: San Diego, California
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Environment and Culture, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Employee ownership models
Co-operative technical assistance program: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Environment and Culture, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Employee ownership models
Technical assistance, funding and grant opportunities for employee ownership: New York, New York
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Learning and Development, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Employee ownership models
Employee ownership revolving loan fund: Miami, Florida
- Levers: Empowerment
- Principles: Environment and Culture, Voice and Representation
- Strategy: Employee ownership models
Infant Care Program: Boulder County, Colorado
- Levers: HR Practices
- Principles: Schedules, Benefits
- Strategy: Employer offered benefits
Integrated childcare subsidies: Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Benefits
- Strategy: Benefits (PTO and medical) protections
Childcare wage boost program: King County, Washington
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Earnings, Benefits
State of Michigan Childcare Wage Boost Program
- Levers: Policy
- Principles: Earnings
- Strategy: Living wage policies