Subcommittee on Workforce Changes Subcommittee Meeting #1 March 5, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Subcommittee on Workforce Changes

Subcommittee Meeting #1 March 5, 2019

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Welcome and Introductions

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Background on National Efforts

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NHTSA on Workforce and Labor (pg. 10)

• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued guidance on

automated vehicle policy. The third version, released in October 2018, briefly addressed potential workforce changes:

– There is a high level of uncertainty regarding how AVs will impact jobs with differing levels of driving and non-driving responsibilities. – Past experience suggested AVs may create new job opportunities. For example, after WWII widespread automobile ownership created jobs in vehicle manufacturing, financing and insurance, tourism, roadside services, and suburban homebuilding. AVs may create jobs in programming and cybersecurity. – U.S. DOT acknowledges the need to develop a transition strategy for driving-based

• ccupations. They are working with other federal agencies on a comprehensive analysis
• f how AVs will impact employment and the workforce.

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Federal Study on the Impact of AV Technologies on Workforce

• U.S. DOT issued a Notice of Request for Comments on the scope of this

study in October 2018.

• General areas of inquiry will include:
• 1. Modeling of labor force transformation given various AV adoption

timelines and scenarios

• 2. Labor force training needs
• 3. Situational awareness and safety issues
• 4. Quality of life improvements for drivers

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National Governor’s Association

• Currently researching national network

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Federal and State Agency Resources

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Public Workforce System

• Department of Labor (DOL)
• Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC)
• Office of Workforce Investment (OWI)
• Workforce and Talent Development Board (WTDB)
• Nine Local Workforce Development Boards

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Public Workforce System

• Office of Student Access and Completion (OSAC)
• Oregon Employment Department (OED)
• Business Oregon
• Others

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AI/AV Sector Insight

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Workforce Impact

• KS Venkatraman – Director of GPU and AI Computing, NVIDIA

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Review and Revisions to Subcommittee Scope

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Resources

• Learn from past changes to timber and coal industry as technology and culture changed

Transitions

• How to avoid displacing people from jobs/entire industries
• How to ensure that people transition into equivalent or better jobs in a similar industry
• How to ensure that the new jobs created are high quality
• Could create new jobs, e.g. remote operators, technician, monitors
• Earnings for jobs monitoring vehicles vs. driving them
• Bringing in underserved people first to newly created jobs
• Ensure messaging on this issue acknowledges that we currently need more drivers and will for some time
• Ensure messaging on this issue differentiates between commercial trucks vs. passenger vehicles
• Some stressful driving jobs could become more customer-service-driven and less stressful (e.g. bus driver
• vs. bus greeter/host)
• Address independent contractor issue and regulations on gig economy workers
• Retirement and pension system impacts

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Training/Education

• Connection between automation and jobs that require advanced degrees
• Making sure the workforce plan is connected to Oregon educational institutions to provide training in

these new fields

• Educational requirements for mechanic vs. servicing AV electronic systems
• Retraining for first responders about working within AVs and new requirements for reacting to AV crashes
• Training needs as implementation takes effect
• Education implications: There are already not enough programmers, etc., and more automation means

that demand for these jobs will only increase Culture

• Conversation with public about changes caused by automation and how it impacts to their daily lives
• Potential changes in entire patterns of life, such as changes to shift work, overnight work, etc.
• Looking at AV technology as an assist to humans

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Retail

• Potential changes to retail if automated vehicles deliver goods to customers
• Understanding how all these changes affect retail workforce
• Impacts even on truck stops, restaurants and other staffing along interstates
• Changes to retail will likely differ in urban and rural areas

Adjacent Affected Industries

• If crashes are truly reduced, effects could be seen to auto body industry, insurance industry, medical

industry, etc.

• How we deal with car junkyard waste – if the cars have so many electronics, do they become e-waste?

(Implications for junkyard/e-waste station staffing?)’

• Relationship of workers’ comp insurance rate changes as job classifications get safer due to automation of

vehicles

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Priorities and Final Product

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Possible Priorities and Goals

• Identify elements of a state study on how automated vehicle deployment

will affect the workforce.

– Should ensure the study is Oregon-specific and does not duplicate the announced federal study

• Investigate and document national and state guidance related to how

automated vehicles will affect the workforce.

• Investigate and document existing national and state programs/policy

related to workforce changes, and identify gaps that need to be filled to address the potential changes brought about by automated vehicle deployment.

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Public Comment

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Recap and Next Steps