Chapter 5 – Adult Custody and Security Operations

53140.14 Employment Development Department

• Annually, upon the creation of any new job position, upon the alteration of any existing position, or upon the establishment of any new JVPJoint Venture Program business, the JVPU is responsible for submitting job descriptions for each inmate-employee position to EDDEmployment Development Department. The EDDEmployment Development Department shall, upon completion of their review, provide wage survey data for each inmate-employee job description, and will make the wage information available to the CDCRCalifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on an annual basis. In addition, the JVPU will request wage data from EDDEmployment Development Department on any new JVEs throughout the year or as needed. EDDEmployment Development Department will also provide information on whether the employment of inmates would result in the displacement of currently employed and unemployed non-inmate workers performing the same work in the locality.

• If the JVE does not employ non-inmate workers in the same or similar job positions as those worked by its inmate-employees, the EDDEmployment Development Department will determine the SOC applicable to each position.

• Using the SOC, the EDDEmployment Development Department will randomly select twenty OES by industry from the locality of the JVE’s prison work site. If twenty OES surveys are unavailable from that locality, the EDDEmployment Development Department will obtain OES surveys from the most appropriate proxy locality. In the event twenty OES surveys are unavailable statewide, the total available statewide shall be used to identify entry level wages.

• If, in the opinion of the Administrator of the JVPU, the entry level wage should be reviewed, the Administrator may request that the EDDEmployment Development Department pull an additional twenty OES surveys. This will be the final review. In the event of different survey results, the Administrator will designate the entry level wage supported by one of the two wage surveys.