How have PLAs been used to achieve benefits for the community?
Public entities are using PLAs to provide opportunities for historically disadvantaged workers and businesses. Working together, agencies, unions, contractors and community groups have created innovative pre-apprenticeship programs to help community members develop the skills they need to enter apprenticeship programs; have reserved certain numbers of apprenticeship positions for minority or disadvantaged youth; have set hiring targets for members of the community; and have guaranteed certain numbers of jobs for small or minority-owned businesses. As a result of the requirements of the PLA applied to construction of the Washington National’s Stadium in Washington, D.C., for example, unprecedented numbers of D.C. residents were employed on the project as apprentices and journeypersons. Public agencies in Los Angeles County have similarly used PLAs to significantly increase the number of local and disadvantaged workers successfully prepared for and brought into the local labor-management
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