Quality Jobs - Workforce Assessment & Action Planning
Assessing the state of your contracting opportunities, contractors, and workers is a key first step in any effort to build quality jobs in ecosystem management.
What is a high quality ecosystem management job?
We believe that a quality job should include:
1. Family supporting compensation (e.g. above the county average annual wage)
2. A safe and healthy workplace
3. Stable, durable employment
4. Ability to work near where one lives
5. Skill standards (high skilled, multi-skilled; industry recognition of standard)
Forum on Working Conditions for Forest Workers | en español
Laws and Basic Labor Rights for Forest Workers (pdf, 2.1 mb)
A booklet developed by the Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters
Forest Service Direction on forest workers' safety and health
- Chief's Letter, Nov. 18, 2005 (pdf, 48 kb)
- Acquisition Management Director Letter, Jan. 4, 2006 (pdf, 42 kb)
- USDA News Release (pdf, 80 kb)
- New Contract Provisions (pdf, 380 kb)
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
- Workplace Safety & Health
Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheets: Information for forest workers regarding employment standards and protection.- #49. The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultral Worker Protection Act
English (pdf, 20 kb) | Spanish (pdf, 32 kb) - #50. Transportation under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
English (pdf, 40 kb) | Spanish (pdf, 56 kb) - #63. Application of Federal Labor Laws to Reforestation
English (pdf, 64 kb) | Spanish (pdf, 64 kb)
- #49. The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultral Worker Protection Act
Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries
Related Publications and Associations
