Existing law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. That act requires the establishment of a local workforce development board in each local workforce development area of the state to, among other things, develop effective linkages with employers in the region to support employer utilization of the local workforce development system and to support local workforce investment activities.
This bill would authorize the board to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the local workforce development
boards in the state to coordinate mutual aid assistance between all local workforce development boards in the event that any local workforce development board needs additional assistance in disaster relief efforts or activities in that local workforce development area. This bill would require the memorandum of understanding to include best practices and baseline qualifications for employees of a local workforce development board who may be responding to a request for assistance in the event of a disaster.
This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would allocate an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the board for costs involved in the creation of the memorandum of understanding, establishment of the best practices and baseline qualifications specified in the memorandum of understanding, and the training of employees of a local workforce development board to meet those best practices or baseline qualifications established in the memorandum of
understanding.