The Pennsylvania Workforce Development Association (PWDA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L & I) have recognized four exemplary supporters of workforce, community, and economic development.
The 2021 Governor’s Achievement Employer Awards were made virtually May 5, at the 37th annual conference of PWDA, the association for the state’s 22 workforce development boards and the extensive statewide workforce development system.
L & I is the state agency tasked with administering benefits to unemployed individuals, overseeing the administration of workers’ compensation benefits to individuals with job-related injuries, and providing vocational rehabilitation to individuals with disabilities. It also promotes economic development and an improved business climate through a variety of initiatives and programs to help Pennsylvania’s workforce remain world-class and globally competitive.
The L & I’s Office of Vocational Rehabilitation recognized KloverSEPA, Inc. of Quakertown with a Governor’s Achievement Employer Award for its outstanding partnership with the Bucks County Department of Workforce and Economic Development and the PA CareerLink Bucks County.
Nominated by the Bucks County Workforce Development Board, the precision manufacturing company, which designs, engineers, and fabricates exterior and interior load and non-load, and bearing wall systems, hired 65 new employees in 2020, growing its average employee count by 19.4%.
KloverSEPA also provided 14 incumbent workers with advanced, state-approved registered apprenticeships to advance their skill sets and knowledge. In addition, the company actively promotes manufacturing and construction to young people as a viable career path, offering cooperative education opportunities, speaking at the Upper Bucks County Technical School, and hosting students at its manufacturing facility.
Governor’s Achievement Employer Award winners also included:
InspectionGo, a digital home inspection service with a national footprint, based in Tyrone, Blair County;
Sintergy, Inc., a powdered metal company with 70 employees based in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County; and
UPMC Health Plan, part of an integrated health care delivery system owned and operating by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
“The Governor’s Achievement Employer Awards represent the highest honor that Pennsylvania’s workforce development system can bestow,” said PWDA Executive Director Carrie Anne Amman.“These outstanding Pennsylvania employers provide the vital link between Pennsylvania’s workforce needs and its response, providing the only base solid enough to ensure economic stability: a family-sustaining job.”
Also recognized were three Pennsylvania companies in the “honor roll” category. They are early childhood education staffing firm ChildCare Careers in Pittsburgh, national home improvement company West Shore Home in Mechanicsburg, and senior living care center Whitehall Manor in Whitehall.
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