Concurrent Breakout Session: Enhancing UI Wage Records - Better Data Insights for Career, Education, and Training Decisions
Description
Tracks: Administrators | Employment and Training | Technology | Unemployment Insurance | Workforce and Labor Market Information
Enhancing UI Wage Records - Better Data Insights for Career, Education, and Training Decisions
Join this session to hear directly from state leaders on enhancing UI wage records to develop better data insights for career, education, and training decisions. What plans or progress are they making, what are the priority use cases, and what lessons can they teach us? Also, hear the case for developing a broader cross-state and public-private collaboration to implement standardization of these and other earnings and employment records to make the information system more efficient for businesses and more impactful for public agencies.
MODERATOR
Adrienne Johnston, Director, Division of Workforce Services, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
PANELISTS
Julie Hatch-Maxfield, Associate Commissioner, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
Lesley Hirsch, Assistant Commissioner, Research and Information, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Adam Leonard, Director, Information Innovation & Insight, Texas Workforce Commission
Bob Sheets, JEDx Consultant, Chamber of Commerce Foundation