1. Applauding the End of America’s Job Bank
Some workforce and recruiting experts say there’s no reason for a government-run site that duplicates what other boards are doing better.
2. A Meeting to Remember
Two executives say they tried to persuade the Department of Labor to let America’s Job Bank survive in some form, by either selling or giving away its assets. The assistant secretary of labor in charge of the site reportedly told them there was no evidence the site helped people get jobs. That statement is refuted by one of DOL’s own studies.
3. Turning a Deaf Ear?
In 2003, the Department of Labor asked members of the business community and others about the performance of America’s Job Bank. Far from calling for the closure of the free job Web site, they called for investing more in it and other government-sponsored online tools.
4. Governing Group for America’s Job Bank Dies Before Site Does
The governing body for a set of services including America’s Job Bank stopped meeting earlier this decade. A former U.S. Department of Labor official blames the group’s demise on the Labor Department, which has come under fire for its decision to close America’s Job Bank.
5. Communication Account Closed on America’s Job Bank
Communication Account Closed on America’s Job Bank
DOL declines further comment on the closing of America’s Job Bank.
By Ed Frauenheim Comments 0 | Recommend 0
Workforce Management was unable to get responses from the U.S. Labor
Department to many of the points raised in this series of articles.
In mid-June, a Labor Department spokeswoman informed Workforce Management that
the department would no longer answer the publication’s questions about the
closing of America’s Job Bank.
"Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Labor has responded to numerous
queries from Workforce Management magazine on the closure of America’s Job
Bank," Labor Department spokeswoman Jennifer Kapland wrote in an e-mail June 14.
"As the department has indicated previously, it is necessary to establish an end
point—which has now passed—with regard to these inquiries so that staff can
respond to the variety of other media requests it receives."
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