October 30. 2014
October 30, 2014
DOL News Brief October 30, 2014
Learning How Apprenticeship Creates a Talent Pipeline
As the department prepares to launch a major push to expand apprenticeship across the country, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez traveled to Germany to learn about its apprenticeship models. German businesses have 16 times as many apprentices per capita as the United States, and apprenticeship is considered an essential component of how German businesses recruit and train workers. Soon after landing in Frankfurt, Perez toured a Jobs information Center, a public employment service that provides students and workers with career information. He also traveled to the Volkswagen facility in Wolfsburg to learn how apprenticeships are being used by one of the country's leading companies. The Volkswagen program employs state-of-the-art training tools to ensure its workers keep up with changing technologies. In Berlin, Perez met with a medium-sized health care company as well as Siemens, a multinational engineering corporation, to learn how apprenticeship can be valuable for businesses of all sizes and in every industry. Capping off his visit, he engaged in a roundtable discussion with representatives of German work councils. The councils play a critical role in building collaborative relationships between businesses and workers to ensure economic success for both.
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