Business organizations nominate leaders for appointment to the state workforce investment board and local workforce investment boards. Business volunteers chair and form majorities on these state and local workforce boards. The boards choose local comprehensive one-stop center operators. The boards set policies for eligible training providers. The boards oversee the system's quality, performance results, relevance, and continuous improvement.
Business helps design and build employment statistics systems for use in one-stops.
Divide the state into designated local workforce areas to be overseen by local boards Review local plans Comment annually on the coordination and joint planning with vocational education in the state, and Develop the statewide employment statistics system. Promote the participation of employers and help meet employers' hiring needs. State and local business organizations, trade associations, chambers of commerce, manufacturing associations, and roundtable groups must provide local elected officials with nominations for membership on state and local boards. They need to be insistent and aggressive about their responsibility to provide the nominations for workforce investment boards, and stay connected to the activities of the board and local systems. Consultation with local elected officials and insistence on high quality appointments to the boards will be important during the implementation.