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This study explores the organization of work and occupational health risk as elicited from recently immigrated women (n = 8) who have been in the US for less than three years and employed in informal work sectors such as cleaning and factory work in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts. Additional interviews (n = 8) with Community Key Informants with knowledge of this sector and representatives of temporary employment agencies in the area provides further context to the interviews conducted with recent immigrant women. These results were also compared with our immigrant occupational health survey, a large project that spawned this study. Responses from the study participants suggest health outcomes consistent with being a day-laborer scholarship, new immigrant women are especially at higher risk within these low wage informal work sectors. A difference in health experiences based on ethnicity and occupation was also observed. Low skilled temporary jobs are fashioned around meeting the job performance expectations of the employer; the worker’s needs are hardly addressed, resulting in low work standards, little worker protection and poor health outcomes. The rising prevalence of non-standard employment or informal labor sector requires that policies or labor market legislation be revised to meet the needs presented by these marginalized workers.

A design for a veteran's retraining program that adapts the skills of retired military personnel of the Peruvian Air Force so that they can reenter the labor market is proposed in this article. The previous is accomplished through a quantitative and qualitative approach, which measures the perception of military personnel and the gaps between profiles of the labor market and those of the military personnel. An analysis of adaptability, practicability, and acceptability was conducted to validate the proposed design. The results show the viability of the proposal. It also shows that 95% of the sampled participants agree with the implementation of a work reconversion program. Thus, this proposal can directly and significantly influence the reentry of retired military personnel in the Peruvian labor market. ; Este artículo propone el diseño de un programa de reconversión laboral para que el personal militar en retiro de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú pueda reinsertarse al mercado de trabajo mediante la adaptación de sus competencias. Esto se hace mediante un enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo, para medir la percepción del personal militar y las brechas existentes entre los perfiles del mercado laboral con los del ámbito militar. Para validar el diseño propuesto, se hizo un análisis de adaptabilidad, practicabilidad y aceptabilidad. Los resultados muestran la viabilidad de la propuesta y permiten ver que el 95 % de la muestra está de acuerdo con la implementación de programa de reconversión laboral. Así, esta propuesta puede influir directa y significativamente en la inserción del personal militar en retiro al mercado laboral peruano.