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- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to social services
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.189
- Rules report cal.189
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 4096a
- Amend and recommit to social services
- Referred to social services
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Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and nontraditional employment in public assistance employment programs
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Velmanette Montgomery
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BILL NUMBER:A4096A
Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and nontraditional employment in public assistance employment programs
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 defines "nontraditional employment" and "sustainable wage." Section 2 requires that local social services district plans for public assistance employment programs empha- size training for sustainable wage jobs and promote understanding of nontraditional employment opportunities for participants. Section 3 requires that participant orientations include information on education and training for sustainable wage jobs and non-traditional employment opportunities available under the local plan. Sections 4 and 5 require participant employability plans to take into account the potential for available employment that pays a sustainable wage such as apprentice- able, technical and professional occupations and nontraditional employ- ment.
Justification
In the rush to reduce welfare rolls under federal welfare reform, many welfare recipients have been placed in low-paying jobs. In particular, initial studies of women moving from welfare to work indi- cate that the vast majority of women move into jobs that do not lift them and their children out of poverty. These jobs are typically in industries, such as food service and home health care, which are tradi- tionally populated by women workers.
A 2001 study of job training for low-income people, particularly women leaving welfare, found a clear pattern of gender segregation in job training referral and placements. Programs training for jobs as bank teller and nail technician had 100% female enrollment, while programs training for higher paying jobs such as appliance technician and automo- tive technician had overwhelming male enrollments. Overall, women comprise 25% or less of total workers in many fields, such as skilled trade occupations - carpenter, electrician, millwright, plumber, sheetmetal worker; technical jobs - drafter, rigger, computer techni- cian; service jobs - taxi driver, furniture mover and truck driver; public service jobs, such as firefighter, police officer and ambulance driver, and professions - chemist, aerospace engineer, and city manager.
Nontraditional employment can help women achieve economic independence: nontraditional jobs offer women wages paying 20% to 30% more on average than traditionally female occupations, as well as good benefits and opportunities for advancement.
As welfare reform continues, increased emphasis needs to be placed on services that will move participants into sustainable wage jobs to permanently lift families out of poverty, and prevent them from cycling in and out of dependence on public assistance. This becomes especially critical as the 60 month lifetime limit for federally-funded public assistance is reached. For women in particular, a crucial but underuti- lized route to a sustainable wage job is through nontraditional employ-
ment. The provisions of this bill will ensure that local social services districts increase their emphasis on counseling, education and training for nontraditional employment and sustainable wage jobs.
Prior legislative history
2007:A.3366/S.3201 Veto #94 2008:A.9197-A/S.6256-A
Effective date
The one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become law.
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