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Three Central Pennsylvania programs receive School-to-Work grants
Three Central Pennsylvania programs designed to prepare students for the workforce are among 12 programs chosen to receive Schools-to-Work grants.
Free on-the-job training program for hospital support staff starts June 6
A new program, the Environmental and Food Service Associate Training Program, will offer free work skills and on-the-job training for hospital house cleaning and food service.
PNC grant to support Thaddeus Stevens effort to educate low-income adults
PNC Foundation is supporting Thaddeus Stevens College Foundation’s efforts to put low-income adults from Black and brown communities in Lancaster to work.
Apprenticeship programs are on the rise and the state is investing
Apprenticeship programs are growing across the state to help students earn while they learn and provide employers with a stream of workers they need. Thursday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced awards totaling more than $11 million for 26 apprenticeship programs for occupations in agriculture, manufacturing, health care, IT, education, human services, building trades and more. “Apprenticeships [&h[...]
Pennsylvania Petroleum Association opens expanded training facility, launching new teaching program next year
The Pennsylvania Petroleum Association (PPA) finished expansions to its Pennsylvania Petroleum Association Technical Education Center (PPATEC), which it says will help it increase the number of qualified home and business heating and cooling service professionals in the area.
Is the office passé? Not in Central Pa., where vacancy rates are below the national average
How robust is the demand for office space in central Pennsylvania? Among developers and commercial real estate agents, perspectives vary, with some seeing strong activity across the board, while others point to uncertainty as businesses navigate the COVID-19 economy.
Lack of childcare forcing women out of workforce
Kendra Auker is president and CEO of the Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg. She oversees 2,000 employees, 1,600 of them women, and many of them in their child rearing years.
Stress, burnout and retirement are depleting nursing’s ranks, including the instructors needed to train their replacements
“Physically, psychologically, it was too much,” Grab said, adding that a lot of nurses left the field in the past year. “Unfortunately, there are not enough nurses in the pipeline to fill those spots.”
Unemployment work search requirements to resume in July
With vaccines now readily available and COVID-19 numbers dropping, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry is saying it will soon be time for those on unemployment to start looking for work.
How employers can respond to CDC mask guidance in the workplace
On May 13, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) changed its COVID-19 masking guidelines, announcing fully vaccinated Americans could now unmask indoors.
The PRO Act is being called a ‘game changer’ by unions, and a threat to worker freedom by right-to-work advocates
The PRO Act, a prospective legislative move currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as proposed would ban state right-to-work laws, require employers to provide personal employee information to unions, such as cell phone numbers and addresses, and make it harder for companies to legally hire gig workers.
How the PRO Act defines gig workers
Under the proposed Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act gig workers including freelancers, independent contractors and temporary workers would need to pass a test to be classified as gig workers.
