Drawing upon published research, reports, and critical analyses, this paper examines the major issues involved in helping private business and industry face the challenge of effestively training limited-English-proficient (LEP) employees. The literature review is part of a larger project that is developing nine demonstration private industry/education partnership programs in industry-based bilingual vocational training and a handbook to help start other industry-based programs. Material reviewed in the paper is limited to that answering the general question, “What do we need to know to provide the best assistance and to develop a handbook?” The paper examines six major topics, drawn from a preliminary analysis of the existing literature as it reflects the project’s anticipated needs: (1) workplace literacy and its relationship to bilingual vocational training; (2) job-related language skill training needs of LEP employees; (3) cross-cultural communication needs in the workplace; (4) successful workplace training program models for LEP adults; (5) components of successful public/private partnerships; and (6) economic costs and benefits to industry in providing such training. (Includes a 10-page bibliography.) (KC) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.