Oversight of Veterans Employment Programs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Readjustment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, June 17, 1977

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Page 249 - It shall be the province and duty of the bureau to promote and develop a national system of employment offices for men, women, and juniors who are legally qualified to engage in gainful occupations, to maintain a veterans...
Page 97 - Veteran of the Vietnam era" means a person (1) who (i) served on active duty for a period of more than 180 days, any part of which occurred...
Page 91 - Resolved, by the National Executive Committee of The American Legion in regular meeting assembled in Indianapolis, Indiana...
Page 276 - Department shall promptly investigate such complaint and shall take such action thereon as the facts and circumstances warrant consistent with the terms of such contract and the laws and regulations applicable thereto.
Page 249 - ... service to be devoted to securing employment for veterans, to maintain a farm placement service, to maintain a public employment service for the District of Columbia, and, in the manner hereinafter provided, to assist in establishing and maintaining systems of public employment offices in the several States and the political subdivisions thereof in which there shall be located a veterans
Page 258 - I have been directed to bring the following issues to the attention of the US House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Manpower, Compensation, and Health and Safety as you hold the Employment Service oversight hearings June 9, 10, 16 and 17.
Page 55 - LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. [(a) IN GENERAL. — No State government or unit of local government may use, directly or indirectly, any part of the funds it receives under this subtitle as a contribution for the purpose of obtaining Federal funds under any law of the United States which requires such government to make a contribution in order to receive Federal funds.
Page 276 - Any contract in excess of $2.500 entered into by any Federal department or agency for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) for the United States shall contain a provision requiring that, in employing persons to carry out such contract the party contracting with the United States shall take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified handicapped individuals as defined in section 7(6).
Page 147 - The Honorable the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, The Honorable the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SIRS: I am presenting herewith my Economic Report to the Congress, as required under the Employment Act of 1946.
Page 25 - A unit of general local government shall not qualify as an eligible applicant with respect to any area within the jurisdiction of another eligible unit of general local government unless such smaller unit has not submitted an approvable application for such areas, or states its desire to the ARDM, in writing, to be served by such larger unit (sec. 204(a...

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