Employment Law Updates | New Proposed Legislation

August 2, 2010

House Approves Legislation to Improve Public-Private Sector Economic Development

The Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act (SECTORS)
H.R. 1855, 7/19/2010

The House of Representatives has approved bipartisan legislation on a voice vote that will help key industries, such as manufacturing, meeting their skilled workforce needs.

The Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act (SECTORS), H.R. 1855, will help address local skills shortages by bringing employers in key industries together with education, labor, workforce, and other groups to identify and provide training tailored to meet the sector needs of that region’s economy.

Introduced by U.S. Reps. Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Todd Platts (R-PA), the bill will help promote ‘sector strategies’, which drive industry growth and competitiveness by aligning training and…

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Ontario Police Department

City of Ontario

Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc.

B & D Contracting

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee

Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Agere Systems, Inc. f.k.a. Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Tulsa Winch, Inc.

Ramsey Winch, Inc.

Norris

DP Manufacturing, Inc.

Auto Crane Company

Northeastern Land Services, Ltd. d.b.a. NLS Group

Pacific Bell Telephone Co.

LA Weight Loss, Inc. n.k.a. Pure Weight Loss, Inc.

Pacific Bell Information Services

Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc.

Advanced Solutions, Inc.

The Work Connection

Cardone Industries, Inc.

Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc.

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

BVP, LLC d.b.a. Big Vanilla Pasadena

Lehigh Valley Physicians Business Services, Inc.

N.F.A.C., Inc. d.b.a. Big Vanilla Athletic Club

Lehigh Valley Health Services, Inc.

J.C. Penney Corp.

Huron Valley Ambulance, Inc.

American Insurance Co.

Murphy Ford Inc. d.b.a. Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

United Airlines, Inc.

City of Chicago

Equal Employment Opportunity

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

The Star Tribune Company

New Process Steel L.P.

Scolari's Warehouse Markets, Inc. d.b.a. Scolari's Food and Drug

National Labor Relations Board

Rent-A-Center West, Inc.

EGL, Inc.

Eagle Freight Systems, Inc.

Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America

ConocoPhillips

Visteon Corp.

Google, Inc.

AT&T Corp.

U.S. Airways, Inc.

FBL Financial Group, Inc.