{"id":3081,"date":"2014-01-11T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/01\/11\/federal-grant-assists-ne-miss-workforce-training\/"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:51:12","slug":"federal-grant-assists-ne-miss-workforce-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/federal-grant-assists-ne-miss-workforce-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal grant assists NE Miss. workforce training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nTUPELO, Miss.\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; A U.S. Department of Labor grant                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\ndesigned to support a new workforce training and development program for the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s furniture industry has been awarded to Mississippi State University, the Tupelo-based Community Development Foundation and Itawamba Community College.<\/p>\n<p>The $496,000 grant will fund training over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p> Participating employees will come from furniture producers and suppliers based in northeast Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Potential participants include both managers and production staff.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators said the program is expected to improve employee attitudes, create higher retention rates, lessen absenteeism and improve efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Executives from Mississippi furniture manufacturers have provided information on the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needs.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most pressing needs in workforce training are ergonomics, health and safety, leadership, motivation and performance management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, TUPELO, Miss.\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; A U.S. Department of Labor grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}