It's voluntary, permanent, and on-demand.
Olderham, ’20 [James Olderham, Professor of Law and Legal History Emeritus at Georgetown Law, “Green Jobs Guarantee, Coronavirus, and Public Sanitation,” published Spring 2020, https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=econ_student_papers_economies //jwc]
First, it is necessary to describe exactly how the Green Job Guarantee is intended to work, at least in a general sense. To do so, it may be most helpful to first understand the intent of a general Jobs Guarantee/ELR proposal. In general, a Federal Jobs Guarantee program could be defined as: “…a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has the potential to be transformative by advancing the public purpose and improving working conditions, people’s everyday lives, and the economy as a whole (Tcherneva, 2018).”