Governance & Policy

Workforce Transition Plan

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Definition

A workforce transition plan sets out how an organisation will support workers through the shift to a low-carbon business model — identifying affected roles, providing retraining and redeployment, engaging unions and workers' representatives, and safeguarding job quality. It operationalises just transition principles at company level.

References

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Overview

How it is used

Companies publish transition plans with workforce sections; investors assess just transition credibility through initiatives such as the World Benchmarking Alliance; social dialogue agreements set retraining commitments; governments tie support to transition planning.

Why it matters

Climate action fails politically and socially if workers bear unmanaged costs. Workforce transition planning aligns decarbonisation with decent work and community resilience.