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Welcome to the Governor's Workforce Board RI
     
Since Governor Carcieri established the Governor’s Workforce Board in September 2005, the 17-member board has supported strategies to improve the existing skill base of the Rhode Island workforce and to anticipate the future needs of growing and emerging businesses. In the past 18 months, the Governor’s Workforce Board has made more than $15-million worth of strategic investments in Rhode Island that reward collaboration among the state’s employment, education and economic development entities.   Diverse group of people with different occupations in different industries

 

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Executive Order 05-18, signed by Governor Carcieri on September 22, 2005 created the Governor's Workforce Board Rhode Island.  Title 42, Chapter 102 of the Rhode Island General Laws, as amended, restructured the Human Resource Investment Council. RIGL 28-42-84 established the special (0.02%) funding for support of UI and ES core operations.

The Governor's Workforce Board RI unifies the mandates defined by both state and federal legislation including the RI Human Resource Investment Council and the U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Investment Act.  The Board's role is to institute statewide policies, goals and guidelines for the coordination of all employment and training programs, employment-associated educational programs and related services, throughout the state. The Board's mission is to develop, implement and support strategies that increase and improve the skill base of the workforce to meet the current and future demands of Rhode Island's businesses. In addition, the Board convenes and builds consensus among public and private stakeholders on devising policies that increase economic development opportunities within the state. In addition, the Board serves as the primary advisory body to the Governor regarding the array of Rhode Island's federal and state workforce development programs and related system issues. 

The Human Resource Investment Council, legislatively connected to the Board, manages and provides oversight of the Job Development Fund.  The funds, derived from a .21 percent assessment of employers' payroll tax, may be used to strategically invest in employment, training, education and economic development initiatives that promote and support the broader mission of the Board.

In the Board's oversight role, it is responsible for all state and local workforce and education programs including those under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, the Wagner-Peyser Act, the Family Support Act, and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and all other employment and training related programs presently existing or established in the future.

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