Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1948: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1948, and H. Con. Res. 131, a Concurrent Resolution Against Adoption of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of January 19, 1948. Feb. 27 and 28, 1948Considers transfer of U.S. Employment Service and Bureau of Employment Security to DOL. |
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Page 6 - ... conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Page 8 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 157 - Government; (3) to increase the efficiency of the operations of the Government to the fullest extent practicable; (4) to group, coordinate, and consolidate agencies and functions of the Government, as nearly as may be, according to major purposes...
Page 193 - In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, the Commission shall consider the degree of risk involved to his health, safety and morals, his physical fitness and prior training, his experience and prior earnings, his length of unemployment and prospects for securing local work in his customary occupation, and the distance of the available work from his residence.
Page 23 - To keep the President informed of the progress of activities by agencies of the Government with respect to work proposed, work actually initiated, and work completed, together with the relative timing of work between the several agencies of the Government — all to the end that the work programs of the several agencies of the executive branch of the Government may be coordinated and that the moneys appropriated by the Congress may be expended in the most economical manner possible with the least...
Page 110 - Government and of its agencies and functions, and the expeditious administration of the public business; (2) to reduce expenditures and promote economy, to the fullest extent consistent with the efficient operation of the Government...
Page 23 - The bureau, when directed by the President, shall make a detailed study of the departments and establishments for the purpose of enabling the President to determine what changes (with a view of securing greater economy and efficiency in the conduct of the public service...
Page 194 - ... if the wages, hours or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality, (c) if as a condition of being employed the individual would be required to join a company union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization, 6.
Page 184 - To give priority in selection and referral to qualified veterans and to give disabled veterans priority over other veterans. (e) To extend no preference in referral to any applicant or group of applicants except in accordance with legal requirements. (f) To ensure so far as practicable that workers are placed on jobs which utilize their highest skills. (g) To ensure insofar as practicable that applicants suitably qualified for job openings are referred to employers. (h) To make no referral as a result...
Page 157 - Act, or abolishing said government or all said functions. (b) No provision contained in a reorganization plan shall take effect unless the plan is transmitted to the Congress before April 1, 1953.