Provider: Community Development Department

Categories: Hiring and Employment Services

Description
Day laborers are individuals who solicit employment on a daily or temporary basis. They often wait for employment on street corners, in parks or in parking lots of home improvement stores, gardening supply businesses or other large retailers. The Day Laborer Program in the City of Los Angeles is a public safety program, which allows persons seeking casual labor work to safely congregate and be matched with employers seeking temporary workers. The main objective of the program is to reduce the number of day laborers who congregate in the various corners within the community, instead having them congregate at fixed sites located in select areas of the City. The Community Development Department (CDD) administers the Day Laborer Program (DLP), public safety program that provides a site where workers and employers can come together to exchange wages for labor. Funding is provided to nonprofit organizations to operate established fixed day laborer hiring sites.

Webpage: http://cdd.lacity.org/emp_empday.html