Labor chief lauds local job centers- April 4, 2008
The Times-Picayune
Robert Travis Scott
BATON ROUGE -- As the administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal tries to redraw the state's workforce training system, his secretary of labor has given high marks to the job service centers in the New Orleans area for taking steps toward the governor's goal of regional cooperation.
Jindal has declared workforce development his most significant initiative of the current legislative session in Baton Rouge, and the building blocks of that strategy are local government workforce operations.
Labor Secretary Tim Barfield and other workforce officials say that, unfortunately, those local job centers often don't work with one another to form a regional training strategy, making it tougher to meet the employment needs of business or spend their resources wisely.
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