Job Quality Playbook
 

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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.
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Economic Policy Institute (National) Local Government Action Protecting Worker Rights

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.
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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.
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State of California High Road Training Partnerships

In 2020, the CA Workforce Development Board launched the High Road Training Partnership that includes a job quality framework that connects job quality and equity initiatives, highlighting how women and Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color are overrepresented in low quality jobs.
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Travis County (TX) Better Build Certification Program

In 2016, Travis County purchasing offices adopted the Better Builder Certification that defines job quality standards for public construction projects. These standards were defined by workers themselves through grassroots organizing with low-income construction workers of color, many of whom spoke limited English.
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