Workforce development: grocery industry.

Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency in the Department of Industrial Relations to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment, among other duties. Existing law also requires specified state entities, in cooperation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to foster and promote on-the-job training programs other than apprenticeship, in accordance with and agreed to by the parties to applicable collective bargaining agreements, as specified. This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to develop a labor-management training partnership to identify workforce training methods appropriate for the grocery industry.