Recent Announcements
The Eutaw Café – Back in Business!
Eutaw Café Manager Steve Brand and Clayton Coe from the Office of General Services
Eutaw Café manager Steve Brand is happy to be welcoming Labor employees back to his kitchen after a long hiatus due to the COVID pandemic. The Café, located in the basement of 1100 N. Eutaw St., serves breakfast and lunch fare from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM (kitchen closes at 1:30). In addition to meals, customers can also select from the same delectable assortment of nuts, chips, cookies and sodas they enjoyed before the world temporarily turned upside down.
Steve has always loved to cook, so the Café is a good fit. He says he’s the Chief Cook at home, too. But his favorite part of the job is meeting people and building relationships. On any given day you can find him chatting and joking with customers as they pay for a cup of fresh coffee, wait for their order to be prepared or stare blankly at the wall of snack food choices, struggling with their conscience over which bag of chips will do the least damage to their diet.
From 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., a steady stream of hungry Labor employees cycle through to pick up a hearty classic breakfast of eggs and their choice of meat and bread, or maybe a breakfast sandwich to start the day right. The second rush starts when the lunch menu opens at 11:00 AM. The lunch crowd can satisfy their inner-carnivore with a quarter-pound angus burger or a variety of deli sandwich options and fresh salads.
Steve wants to get the word out that he has plans for a grand opening event for some time in the coming weeks, to celebrate the Café’s return. Stay tuned for more on this exciting event as details become available!
Call Steve at 443-721-8902 to place an order.
Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing
O&P Fellowship
This month, in a tremendous display of sympathy and fellowship, O&P’s customer service center organized a surprise luncheon and school supply drive for Shanell West and her family. Shanell experienced the sudden loss of her husband, Richard Samuel West, Sr. on July 26th. Since she is the mother of three young children preparing to return to school for the new academic year, the customer service center collected donations from O&P staff to stock their backpacks with supplies and help purchase school uniforms.
The photos below are from the surprise luncheon held on August 13th, in which the unit showed their love and support for Shanell and her family. Customer Service Manager Angela Wood described the event in heartfelt words: “My goal was for my team and I to uplift Shanell West and we did that today. She was able to smile, pose for the camera and have good fellowship. In our group picture, everyone touched her shoulder so she could feel our support and know that we’ve got her back.”
O&P’s Customer Service Center Team Members (clockwise left to right, with Shanell West at center): Sandra Kendell, CSC Manager Angela Wood, Anna Hoegg, Latrenda Glenn, Adriane Clark, Tracinia Rascoe-Brooks, Shane’a White, Romaine Lawson and Jasmine Goodman.
Governor's Workforce Development Board
Maryland Project SEARCH
Governor’s Workforce Development Board (GWDB) member Stacey Herman helped organize and host the annual kick-off conference for Maryland Project SEARCH programs on August 19, 2021. Stacey Herman is the Director of Neurodiversity and Community Workforce Development at Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she oversees Kennedy Krieger’s Project SEARCH program. Project SEARCH is an international network of sites with the primary objective of securing competitive employment for people with disabilities. Maryland’s Project SEARCH annual conference, sponsored by the Maryland Department of Disabilities, had 68 attendees from across the state’s 14 program sites.
This virtual event brought together business partners, adult service providers, school program representatives, the Maryland Department of Rehabilitation Services, the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration, and leaders of organizations from across Maryland, to network, discuss innovative practices and expand programming opportunities. The keynote event was storytelling by graduates of Maryland’s Project SEARCH programs, who shared their personal stories of employment and empowerment throughout their Project SEARCH journeys. Sean Roy, Chief Training and Innovation Officer at TransCen, Inc., engaged attendees in a lunch-and-learn about family engagement, the employment process and collaboration opportunities for the future. The highlight of the conference was the premiere of a video about the successes and celebrations of Maryland’s Project SEARCH programs. Click here to watch the video and learn more about Project SEARCH.
Office of Small Business Regulatory Assistance
Webinar Wednesdays!
In July of 2021, Jan Walker-Emeogo, Small Business State Outreach Director in the Office of Small Business Regulatory Assistance, Tonya Wigfall, Minority Business Outreach Director at the Maryland Department of Commerce, and Ruth Chavez, Bilingual Business Consultant Training Coordinator at the Small Business Development Center met to form a Webinar Committee to target outreach in the small business community. As a result of several meetings, the Webinar Committee developed a 4-part webinar, Business Growth Strategies Series - Start Small….. Think Big, to provide opportunities, resources, and support to small, minority, and women-owned businesses in the state of Maryland.
Join us, as our series features topics on workforce services, how to prepare for growth with or without lending, procurement opportunities of 50k or less (featuring 13 state agencies), and certifications (8a) MBE, SBR, and VSBE!
Click here to register and attend these events.
09/15/2021 - Part 1: Workforce Strategies to Grow Your Business 10am – 11am
09/22/2021 - Part 2: Preparing for Growth With or Without Lending 10am – 11am
09/29/2021 - Part 3: State Procurement Opportunities: $50K and Less 10am – 11am
10/06/2021 - Part 4: Enhancing Your Business with Certifications 10am – 11am
Administration and HR
Happy anniversary to the following Labor employees who celebrate a milestone in state service this month!
5 years
- Natalie Clements - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
- Heidi Boyd - Office of Financial Regulation
- Erica Lewis - Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing
- Giselle Watts - Division of Unemployment Insurance
10 years
- Donald Jordan - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
- John Walker - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
15 years
- Tyrone Finney - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
- Grayla Reneau - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
- Jerry Watford - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
- Beverly Gill - Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
- William Banks - Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing
- Irvenna Singleton-Walton - Division of Unemployment Insurance
20 years
- Edward Steinberg - Board of Appeals
- Julie Moore - Division of Unemployment Insurance
- Suzanne Silber - Division of Unemployment Insurance
- Kimberly McCagh - Division of Unemployment Insurance
- Charles Morrison - Board of Appeals
25 years
- Venissa Wiggins - Office of Administration
- Angela Hamlin - Division of Unemployment Insurance
30 years
- Margaret Brandon - Division of Unemployment Insurance
Office of Information Technology
Security Update: Applied to Drive
On September 13, 2021, Drive will apply a security update to make file sharing more secure. This update will change the links used for some files, and may lead to some new file access requests. Access to these files won't change for people who have already viewed them.
What do I need to do?
You can choose to remove this security update in Drive, but removing the update is not recommended and should only be considered for files that are posted publicly. Learn more
After the update is applied, you can avoid new access requests by distributing the updated link to your file(s). Follow instructions in the Drive documentation
Which files will the update be applied to?
See files with the security update
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