AB 2550: Women in the construction industry: report.

Existing law requires the Employment Development Department, among other duties, to establish, in conjunction with other state entities, a systemwide policy of actively promoting the training of women in nontraditional occupations. Existing law defines nontraditional occupations as any job classification in which not more than 25% of the employees are women, according to the statistics of the United States Department of Labor.

This bill would require the department to collect specified data on women in the construction industry, construction workers, including, among other data, the training and educational capacity to produce trained, certified, and licensed women in construction. construction workers. This bill would also require the department to work with the Department of Industrial Relations Division of Apprenticeship Standards to determine this capacity within state-registered construction preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs and to determine the number of construction preapprentices and apprentices in any given year who are women. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter, to report this data to the Legislature and post the report on its internet website.