Essential skills are identified by many employers as the ability for applicants and employees to show up to work on time, the ability to pass a drug test, be dressed properly for an interview and for work, be able to work well on a team, make eye contact, and even a proper handshake. In 2018 the Kentucky Chamber led essential skills legislation into law.

• Essential skills education bill passes out of House unanimously

• Essential skills education critical for Kentucky workforce, House Leader Shell says

• Essential skills education critical to meeting workforce needs, business community tells lawmakers