Toward Recovery and Reemployment:

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Toward Recovery and Re-employment The Downstate
ERT Economic Response Team Economic Radar,
Response Turnaround
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Downstate ERT
New York City June 11, 2009 Adapted from an
Earlier Presentation to U.S. DOL Boston Regional
Forum Sp Regional Recovery and Reemployment
Summit
Sponsored by New York State Department of Labor
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Overview NYS DOLs Response to Downturn

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Initial Goals of the Downstate ERT
(1) Identify at-risk firms in 4 vulnerable
industry sectors (2) Provide training and
re-employment services for affected workers, (3)
Provide turnaround services to SMEs
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On the Economy and Economic Development

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Whats Happening?
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Whats Happening to Auto Jobs?
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Whats the Big Picture?

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ERT Where and What?Targeted Region and Sectors

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Toward RecoveryWinning the Green Jobs Boom
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Why manufacturing

• .Still Matters

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Initial NYS ERT Design

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Downstate ERTAll Hands on Deck Model
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Downstate ERT Menu of NYS-DOL Emergency
/Stabilization Services

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Downstate ERT Examples of Partner Business
Services

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The Downstate ERT (1) Economic Radar
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Early Alert What it is

• Early warning is a multi-stakeholder approach to
• identifying companies at risk. It seeks to

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WARN as Starting Point
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Downstate ERT Dashboard
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NY Downstate ERT DashboardSources for Firm Risk
Data
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Dashboard Tools LMI
The NYS DOL Research and Statistics Division
tracks workforce information, including industry
trends and UI claims. DOL will pool data on
firms with inordinate layoffs/UI claims, against
industry trends.
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Dashboard Tools Dun and Bradstreet
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Downstate ERT Dashboard DOL Radar/Data
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Downstate ERT Dashboard Public Partners
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Downstate ERT Dashboard Economic Partners
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Downstate ERT(2) Turnaround Assistance
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Making Layoff Aversion And Turnarounds Work
Source NGA Center for Best Practices
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Layoff AversionCore Turnaround Steps
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Quick overview, SVA and the SEWN Network
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Why were here Good Jobs Now, and in
Future

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ContactInformation
Bruce G. Herman Deputy Commissioner of Labor for
Workforce Development NYS Dept. of Labor State
Office Campus, Building 12, Room 588 Albany, NY
12240 tel. [phone] Email
bruce.herman_at_labor.state.ny.us Stephen
Ryan Director of Business Services NYS Dept. of
Labor State Office Campus, Building 12, Room 440
Albany, NY 12240 tel. [phone] Email
stephen.ryan_at_labor.state.ny.us NYS Department of
Labor Protect Assist Connect