Leading Practices

Leading Practices

• In 2022, 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 Colorado Workforce Development Council 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• In 2022, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) provided a comprehensive overview with detailed examples of how local governments are protecting workers’ rights by establishing local labor standards offices to enforce workers’ rights laws, establishing worker boards and councils, passing local worker protections laws, setting job quality standards for contractors and internal employers and championing workers issues through local public leadership.