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.
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.
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.
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.
Workforce Board Job Quality Initiative: Hillsborough County, FL
A job quality framework developed by CareerSource Hillsborough Pinellas to promote higher quality jobs. The Framework is to guide employers in improving job quality, including better pay, benefits, training and advancement opportunities as a strategy to boost worker retention and economic mobility.
Statewide workforce plan drives job quality policy: Michigan
A statewide workforce plan, which outlines a formal vision to create jobs, support workers and employers and guide future programming, procurements and investments, and articulates a focus on achieving the growth of good quality jobs to benefit all residents..
US Department of Labor Job Quality Measurement Initiative
In 2022, in partnership with the Families and Workers Fund, the US Department of Labor launched the Job Quality Measurement Initiative as part of the Good Jobs Initiative to begin measuring not just how many jobs are created in the US economy, but also how many of those jobs have stable schedules, pay a living wage and offer benefits, as well as how they measure against other key indicators. Several research efforts are currently underway, including defining job quality standards for public sector procurement, exploring options for an employer job quality index and developing survey questions to capture workers' voices.
US Departments of Labor & Commerce "Good Jobs Principles"
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.