SB 755 Will Provide Prospective participants in job training services with information on program effectiveness

Under current law, the California Workforce Development Board (“CWDB”) is required to conduct an evaluation of workforce program outcomes as required and permitted by various local, state, and federal laws.  The CWDB uses wage and employment data from the California Employment Development Department (“EDD”)—which administers state unemployment—to conduct such evaluations. 

Senate Bill 755 requires the CWDB and EDD to collaboratively measure and report on training-related job placement outcomes for individuals enrolled in job training programs provided through the workforce system. 

Additionally, the legislation requires that the CWDB and EDD create a plan to use existing data to match relevant employee occupational data, employee place of employment data, and employee hours worked data to participants in job training programs. The legislation further requires the CWDB and EDD implement the plan and provide an initial report of their findings to the legislature, which must be updated annually.

SB 755 will also provide prospective participants in job training services with information on the effectiveness of the various training programs offered through the workforce system.  

This new law will ensure that the CDWB and EDD work collaboratively to measure the efficacy of job-training programs through the workforce system and provide individuals enrolled in job training programs access to a reasonable and objective analysis of the relative success of training programs prior to their enrollment. 

For more information about this or other new laws, please contact your labor law counsel.