Bill Text: NJ A3990 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development to apply smart labor force data to direct veterans to in-demand fields.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [A3990 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A3990-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman HAROLD "HAL" J. WIRTHS
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development to apply smart labor force data to direct veterans to in-demand fields.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the use of smart labor force data and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Beginning January 1, 2021, the Center for Occupational Employment Information in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall produce monthly electronic reports of workforce need projections, by industry, job type, geography, and needed credential, including reports to compare workforce needs with existing and projected workforce and credential availability in the State, and highlight top in-demand industries, job types, and credentials by geographic area. The reports shall include a mapping of which in-demand job titles and credentials would leverage skills, experience and credentials possessed by veterans; and forward the underlying data report and that additional information monthly to appropriate military out-placement offices, education centers, nonprofit programs, and any other office, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency of the State working to connect veterans with jobs.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Center for Occupational Employment Information in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development to produce monthly electronic reports of workforce need projections, by industry, job type, geography, and needed credential, including reports to compare workforce needs with existing and projected workforce and credential availability in the State, and highlight top in-demand industries, job types, and credentials by geographic area. Additionally, the center is required to include in the reports mapping of which in-demand job titles and credentials would leverage skills, experience and credentials possessed by veterans.
Finally, the bill requires the center to forward the underlying data report and that additional information monthly to appropriate military out-placement offices, education centers, nonprofit programs, and any other office, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency of the State working to connect veterans with jobs.
