RCW 28C.25.020 Workforce training and education coordinating board. (Expires June 30, 2020.)

Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the workforce training and education coordinating board must perform the following duties under the direction of the future of work task force:

(1) Develop and maintain an inventory of the current and future trends and factors that drive transformation of industries and work in Washington over the next twenty-five years;

(2) Research best and promising practices from state, national, and international sources, and develop case examples;

(3) Gather input from employers and workers from the major industrial sectors of Washington, via surveys and community forums, ensuring that every region of the state is consulted;

(4) Identify relevant metrics and recommend a possible dashboard for tracking the state's success, addressing future of work issues, including analysis of what data sets are readily available and what new data might need to be collected and by whom;

(5) Consult with public and not-for-profit organizations that support businesses or their workforce to identify policy or structural barriers that hinder the ability of not-for-profit organizations to effectively support business and workforce development in a transformational environment;

(6) Make an initial set of recommendations and a research design report describing the plan and methods to be used by the task force by December 31, 2018; and

(7) Make a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature and the governor on task force activities and recommendations by December 1, 2019. The report must include a recommendation of research and activities the future of work task force would complete if the task force were to continue.

(8) This section expires June 30, 2020.

[ 2018 c 294 § 3.]

NOTES:

Findings—2018 c 294: See note following RCW 28C.25.010.