Among the more influential framework conditions are institutional structures such as workforce representative bodies.
The federal government has strict rules on discrimination in its hiring and employment practices, which have helped made its workforce representative of the diversity of the country.
Recent legislation obliges private firms to try to make their workforces representative of the population at all levels, on pain of large fines.Big business responds to the way the wind is blowing.
Authorities argued that Purdue used deceptive marketing tactics and a sizable workforce of representatives who repeatedly visited physicians to sell them narcotics, assuring them that the drugs were rarely addictive.
Representative John Kline, a Minnesota Republican, who is chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Representative Phil Roe, a Tennessee Republican who heads its subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, said they welcomed the nominations.
Cultural competency is somehow expected to emerge if the racial and ethnic mix of the workforce is representative of the local population.
The Employment Equity Act of 1998 obliges biggish firms to try to make their workforces racially "representative".
Read our tips below (part of a larger series), then please add your own.Working habits Firms are expected to make their workforces "demographically representative" at all levels, from the shopfloor to the boardroom.
From the House, the three Republican contenders for chairmanship of the Committee on Education and the Workforce -- Representatives Tom Petri of Wisconsin, John A. Boehner of Ohio and Peter Hoekstra of Michigan -- will attend.
Members of the effort, known as the Agricultural Workforce Coalition, see representatives from districts where thousands of jobs depend on agriculture as key to any effort to pass the legislation.
