Third District Report December 2019

# Affected

Company Name

Location

Positions to be Eliminated

TE Connectivity

Hemet

30 28

30-Design Engineers 28-Delivery Drivers

Letter Ride

Riverside

* WARN letters are provided by employers to local officials and agencies pursuant to the Worker Adjustment Act and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Special Grants

Veterans Employment Assistance Program (VEAP) – Objective: 100 Veterans served by March 31, 2021. Status: Enrollment of Veterans in vocational training began November 2019. Two Veterans are currently undergoing training; five Veterans are scheduled to begin training in December 2019; and seven additional Veterans are slated to start training in the coming weeks. Additional eligible veterans are currently being recruited. Prison to Employment – Objective: 700 Justice Involved individuals served by March 31, 2022. Status: Sub- recipient agreements for 7 providers of transitional and permanent job placement services will be presented to the Board during the December 17, 2019 Board meeting. Service delivery of these programs is expected to begin January 2020 .

The Year-End Workforce Development Board (WDB) Meeting will be held Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at the March Air Field Museum, 22550 Van Buren Boulevard, Riverside, CA 92518 from 12:00-1:30pm. The WDB will recap 2019 activities, as well as recognize those individuals and partner entities for their support. The Keynote speaker will be Dr. Angelov Farooq, Chair, California Workforce Development Board (WDB) and guest speaker Heidi Marshall, Managing Director, Economic Development Agency. Future of Work Commission - On November 14 th the Future of Work Commission met at UCR for the 3 rd of 8 convening sessions to cover the topics of Education, Skills and Job Quality. The Future of Work Commission, appointed by Governor Newsom, mission is to study and make recommendations regarding future job growth in California; the impact of technology; methods of promoting better job quality, wages and working conditions through technology; modernizing worker safety net protections; and the best way to preserve good jobs and ready the workforce for jobs of the future .