How the Workforce System Can Advance Workplace Health and Safety During and After the Pandemic – Job Quality in Practice Webinar

Across the nation, workforce development professionals are making efforts to help workers connect to jobs and provide for their families amidst concerns about workplace health and safety during the pandemic. And the risks to health and safety are not distributed equally. Due to occupational segregation and other factors rooted in structural racism, Black, Indigenous, and people of color are more likely to endure severe health consequences from the virus and to be concentrated in frontline jobs with high levels of exposure. In this webinar, panelists share about the crucial role workforce development professionals can play in advancing workplace health and safety, including through direct engagement with employers and partnerships with local advocacy organizations. Panelists also discuss how these strategies can be applied to other job quality areas and ways public and philanthropic funders can support this critical work. This discussion features Hugo Avila (SERCO), Christopher Dews (Job Opportunities Task Force), Clair Minson (Sandra Grace LLC), and moderator Amanda Newman (The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program), with recorded remarks from Daniel Castro (The HOPE Program).  This webinar is the seventh in our Job Quality in Practice series. The Job Quality in Practice series is designed to support practitioners across fields – including workforce development, economic development, capital deployment, policy, worker advocacy, and business – to address job quality in their work. Webinars share updates on current conditions and priorities as well as actionable tools and approaches. We also seek to highlight leading practitioners’ work and create connections across disciplines.We are grateful to Prudential Financial for its support of our Job Quality in Practice webinar series and our ongoing efforts to advance a job quality field of practice. The  Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas  to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.  We recognize that race, gender, and place intersect with and intensify  the challenge of economic inequality and we address these dynamics by  advancing an inclusive vision of economic justice. For over 25 years,  EOP has focused on expanding individuals’ opportunities to connect to  quality work, start businesses, and build economic stability that  provides the freedom to pursue opportunity. For more information, visit  our website at as.pn/eop. Learn about new events and activities by joining our mailing list (as.pn/eopmail) and following us on social media (as.pn/eopsocial).