The federal commissioner for labor statistics will discuss the basic ways in which work is changing in the midst of the covid pandemic and how it could impact the future workplace at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Saint Vincent College’s Fred M. Rogers Center near Latrobe.
William Beach, who has been labor statistics commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics since March 2019, will discus “How Robots, Telework, and Global Value Chains Are Fundamentally Reshaping How We Work Now and in the Future.” The event is free.
The former chief economist for the Senate budget committee’s Republican staff also had been the Lazof Family Fellow in economics at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Because of the evolving situation concerning the covid pandemic, visitors to the campus must wear a mask while indoors, regardless of vaccination status. All covid mitigation strategies set forth in the college’s safety plan will remain in effect while on campus.
The college’s Center for Political and Economic Thought is sponsoring the speech, which will open this school year’s McKenna Economic Education Lecture Series.
For more information, contact Mary Beth McConahey, the political center’s assistant director, at marybeth.mcconahey@stvin cent.edu or 724-805-2120.
