FY 2022-23 Proposed Policy Budget
WORKPLACE & EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS
Mission Statement
The Department of Workplace and Employment Standards (DWES) strives to deliver exemplary customer service to residents, businesses and staff as we endeavor to support and promote a robust and diverse economic infrastructure for the City of Oakland.
Learn more about who we are and what we do here.
SERVICE IMPACTS &
EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS
Enhancements
Trustworthy and Responsible Government
- Adds 1.0 FTE Administrative Analyst I to provide support to the Certification Unit to increase capacity to shorten the processing time for local and small local business certifications and allow for greater efficiencies in increasing the availability of local and small local businesses in the certification database.
- Equity Consideration: The Certification Unit provides the vehicle through which local and small local businesses can be identified and included in the City’s procurement process. The Local and Small Local Business Enterprise Program serves to advance equity in City procurement by providing greater opportunities for small local minority and women owned businesses to gain a share of City procurement contracts.
- Adds 1.0 FTE Employment Services Representative to provide support to the Local Employment Program (LEP) in the Workplace & Employment Standards (WES) Unit. This would provide a more advanced skill set to the LEP Program, which will allow for increased advocacy to create employment opportunities for persons of color and workers from unserved and underserved communities on City construction projects. This position will facilitate inclusion by functioning as a liaison with contractor associations and labor unions and providing a conduit for information exchange between contractors and workers.
- Equity Consideration: The Local Employment Program serves to provide employment opportunities for Oakland residents on City funded construction projects. Workers are afforded the opportunity to engage with labor unions to acquire entry level jobs in a variety of trades, engage with job training organizations to acquire job skills, and have their skill levels assessed to match workers with available jobs that are a good fit.
- Adds $60,000 in O&M to purchase computer workstations to replace outdated and malfunctioning equipment and provide workstations for new staff. This is essential to powering the software upgrades being implemented and allow staff to more efficiently utilize resources.
- Equity Consideration: The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities. Equipment to run software and capacity to report on goals and objectives is essential to our success.
- Adds $20,500 in O&M for software subscriptions to enhance data collection methodologies for programmatic tracking, monitoring, and reporting requirements.
- Equity Consideration: The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities. Software that increases the capacity to report on goals and objectives is essential to our success.
- Adds $50,000 in O&M to create, develop, and implement a strategy for outreach to local, small local, and very small local businesses to inform them of the mechanics to successfully do business with the City of Oakland. The strategy will incorporate and include workshops, audio visual aids that can be uploaded to our website for viewing on an as needed basis, development of hard copy manuals, and development of promotional materials to use at community events to inform the public of assistance available through DWES.
- Equity Consideration: The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities. Equipment to run software and capacity to report on goals and objectives is essential to our success.
- Transfers 3.0 FTE Administrative Analyst II in the Contacts Unit from the Department of Workforce and Employment Standards to the Finance Department in order to facilitate greater efficiencies in the contract and grant service procurement process.
- Equity Consideration: More timely and efficient contracting and procurement will improve service delivery for Oakland residents and may speed payment to City vendors and non-profit partners including minority and women owned businesses and non-profits serving BIPOC communities.
SIGNIFICANT BUDGETARY CHANGES
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