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Employ Prince George’s outlines youth-employment strategy; highlights CDL recruitment challenges and mobile career lab
Summary
Employ Prince George’s presented a multi-part workforce briefing focused on youth employment programs, apprenticeship pathways and CDL recruitment for bus drivers; staff said driver pay compression versus private sector employers hampers school-district recruitment, and described a mobile career lab and in-school career navigator expansion.
Employ Prince George’s (EPG) presented its youth-employment and workforce strategies to the Education & Workforce Development Committee on Sept. 8, outlining recruitment challenges for bus drivers and a suite of in‑school and out‑of‑school programs aimed at lowering youth unemployment.
Walter (EPG) reported that PGCPS faces competition from private-sector employers when recruiting commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders. EPG shared market data to show starting wages for CDL drivers in the county were approximately $18.78 per hour (about $39,000 annually), which EPG said is roughly $6,000 below some median pay levels and puts PGCPS at a disadvantage against private contractors and higher-paying employers despite the district’s benefits package.
EPG described multiple initiatives to increase pipeline recruitment. The brief outlined partnerships that subsidize training, including a Spanish‑language…
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