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House orders third reading of H.34 to clarify state workforce leadership roles
Summary
The Vermont House advanced H.34, a bill that defines and separates duties between the Commissioner of Labor and a newly created executive director of the Office of Workforce Strategy and Development; the House ordered a third reading after a committee report and brief floor discussion.
The Vermont House ordered a third reading of H.34, a bill that defines the roles of the Commissioner of Labor and the executive director of the Office of Workforce Strategy and Development and requires the two officials to coordinate the state workforce system. The committee that considered the bill recommended it ought to pass.
The bill “clearly defines the difference in the job of the Commissioner of Labor and the executive director of the Office of Workforce Strategy and Development while requiring them to work together to lead workforce education and employment and training in Vermont,” Representative Groening, member from Jericho, told the chamber during the bill's committee report. "Section 1, 10 BSA 5 40 is amended to define that the co leaders of workforce education, employment and training in Vermont are the commissioner of labor and the executive director of the office of workforce strategy and development."
Groening described the division of duties the…
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