Since we first codified the Opportunity Employment practices early last year, also in partnership with Talent Rewire and input from other experts at MIT Good Jobs Institute, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, the Markle Foundation, Generation, and Opportunity@Work, the goal has been to help employers understand how to operationalize their values and promote economic justice through their employment practices.
While many of the practices from our original codification remain in place, they are more specific and rigorous. There are also several new practices that, based on research and input from experts, we have identified as critical to building a truly equitable and inclusive organization.
Now is the time to be bold and unequivocal in condemning systemic racism in all its forms. For us, that means working relentlessly to ensure the employment system works to create economic mobility for those disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and people of color who have been marginalized from the economic mainstream.