The United States on Thursday announced that it will invest $150 million (over Rs 1,100 crore) to train middle-to-high-skilled H-1B occupations in major sectors of the country’s economy, PTI reported.
The US Department of Labor said that cybersecurity, transportation, information technology and advanced manufacturing are among the major sectors where the H-1B One Workforce grant programme would be used to train a new generation of workers as well as upskill the current workforce.
“The US Department of Labor is challenging communities to think as ‘One Workforce’,” Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training John Pallasch said. “In the current job environment, it is critical that local organisations work as one, instead of independent parts of a process. Our goal is to create seamless community partnerships to build career pathways for local job seekers to…