Plain English Breakdown
The exact amount of the scoring preference is left to be determined by the board, so it cannot be specified here.
AB-2634: Scoring Preference for High Road Training Partnerships
This law requires applicants to have a collective bargaining agreement or labor-management partnership to get funding and gives extra points in the scoring process to bona fide labor-management cooperation committees.
What This Bill Does
- Requires applicants to have a collective bargaining agreement or a labor-management partnership to be eligible for high road training partnership funding.
- Gives a scoring preference to applicants that are bona fide labor-management cooperation committees when the board awards grants.
- Allows entities applying on behalf of these worker-management groups to receive the same scoring preference as the groups themselves.
- Requires the California Workforce Development Board to decide how many extra points to give and write this rule into program guidelines.
Who It Names or Affects
- Organizations that apply for funding under high road training partnership programs or any successor program.
- The California Workforce Development Board, which manages these grants.
- Bona fide labor-management cooperation committees seeking to lead or partner in training projects.
Terms To Know
- High Road Training Partnership
- An initiative that models strategies for developing industry-based, worker-focused training partnerships and demonstrates job quality standards including worker voice.
- Collective Bargaining Agreement
- A formal agreement required by this bill as one way to meet eligibility requirements for funding.
- Scoring Preference
- Extra points added to an application score that the board must determine and include in program guidelines.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not state the exact number of extra points or percentage increase for the scoring preference.
- The text mentions a 'successor program' but does not define what that future program would be called or how it differs from the current one.