N.j. Food Council Receives $250,000 Grant For Frontline Workforce Training

The New Jersey Food Council (NJFC) has been awarded a $250,800 assistance from nan authorities Department of Labor to train nutrient unit workers successful nutrient safety, leadership, and machine skills. 

The funding, administered done nan Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education, will support training for labor of NJFC personnel companies, including supermarkets, convenience stores and grocers crossed nan state. The assistance is portion of a broader effort to amended safety, compliance, and workforce improvement successful nan nutrient unit sector. 

“Our members are enormously grateful for nan training of frontline workers who are opening what we dream will go longtime careers arsenic nutrient retailers,” said Linda Doherty, president and CEO of nan New Jersey Food Council. “This programme allows america to grow nutrient information training crossed nan state, pinch nan extremity of making New Jersey nan nationalist modular for really this mandated programme should beryllium administered.” 

The assistance will money industry-recognized certification programs including ServSafe and SafeMark nutrient information training, arsenic good arsenic courses successful supervisory skills, activity improvement and basal machine software. These skills are progressively captious arsenic nutrient unit operations adopt much exertion and look to beforehand from within. 

The NJFC said nan training helps create profession pathways for frontline labor and opens advancement opportunities from in-store roles to firm positions.

This latest assistance continues a long-running business betwixt nan NJFC and Rutgers OCPE that began successful 2002. To date, nan collaboration has secured much than $3.5 cardinal successful backing to train astir 27,500 New Jersey workers. 

The New Jersey Food Council represents much than 1,200 nutrient retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and work providers employing complete 200,000 group statewide.