Comment submitted to the Internal Revenue Service on proposed regulation that would address the ACA “Family Glitch.”

The UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Technology and Work program provided input to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) initiative on developing a Bill of Rights for an Automated Society.

There are large structural gaps in the employer-sponsored retirement system. I would like delve a bit into the kinds of workers who are left out, and why.

Testimony of Nari Rhee before the U.S. DOL ERISA Advisory Council Hearing. The US private sector employer-sponsored retirement system leaves out many workers, disproportionately impacting Blacks and Latinos. While some states have forged their own path to try to close this coverage gap, these efforts are limited in scope by ERISA preemption. Federal policy action is necessary so that all workers are covered by a plan that effectively prepares them for a financially secure retirement.

Testimony of Nari Rhee before the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor on how the US retirement system can be strengthened and made more inclusive, so that all workers – regardless of race, gender, or class – can have economic security in retirement.

Testimony from Assembly hearing on California’s current health care system.

The ability of homecare workers to choose to join a union and have dues deducted from their pay has led to important improvements in an industry historically marked by low wages and high worker turnover. The proposed rule would not only harm workers, it would have a deleterious effect on care quality and undermine the objective of home and community based services of providing seniors and people with disabilities a viable alternative to institutional settings.

This testimony reviews the state of research on automation, discusses the importance of focusing on job quality in the technology debates, and identifies key policy questions.

Testimony from Assembly hearing on California’s current health care system.

In these comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) under the recently promulgated Clean Power Plan (CPP), the authors explain how providing…

The research roadmap makes significant progress in beginning to address the workforce issues that were highlighted in the Needs Assessment and that are essential for consideration of alternative approaches to workforce issues, including but not limited to training strategies. However, we urge the Energy Division and the IOUs to develop a comprehensive research agenda on jobs and workforce issues.

Although not all of the suggestions from our comments submitted on October 2nd were integrated into the EPIC Final Staff Report, we were pleased
to see that some of our recommendations were taken into account in the revisions. We have a few minor suggestions for additions or revisions to the Report.

Thank you for the opportunity to present comments on the Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Program for Existing Buildings (AB 758) Scoping Report. The following comments expand on my verbal comments presented on October 9, 2012 as a panelist for the AB 758 Scoping Report Workshop.

We applaud the effort that went into the draft plan and appreciate EPIC’s attention to ours and others’ comments on workforce. We appreciate the CEC’s attention to this area and their acknowledgement of the importance of workforce planning In driving commercial scale deployment of energy efficiency and clean energy investments. We present comments that we believe could strengthen EPIC’s efforts in the area of workforce education and training, which detail oral comments we made at the Sept 27 workshop.

The Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) is designed to address innovation, emerging technologies and the growth of markets for clean energy. We believe that workforce issues are a critical component of this and we would like to encourage a strong emphasis on labor market analysis and workforce planning and innovation in the EPIC program.

While the UC Berkeley Don Vial Center for Employment in the Green Economy is pleased to see that the CEC draft language shows recognition of the importance of certification as a means of testing the skills, knowledge and ability (KSAs) to show competency for a particular job like acceptance testing, the approach to choosing which certifications ensure competency is inadequate.

We appreciate the chance to voice some additional thoughts on the Guidelines and underscore some issues that we would like to see highlighted in the guidelines.

These comments offer input on how to revise and update California Clean Energy Future to ensure that this plans helps us to meet the state’s ambitious energy and environmental goals, and that it aligns with Governor Brown’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan.

We offer these comments for the Commission and the IOUs to develop more comprehensive strategies to improve energy savings in ESA programs, support targeted efforts on multi-family housing, and capture the co-benefits of supporting good jobs for low-income people.

We offer these comments for the Commission and the IOUs to develop more comprehensive strategies to improve energy savings in ESA programs, support targeted efforts on multi-family housing, and capture the co-benefits of supporting good jobs for low-income people.