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requirements for the need for high school graduation, and actually having the diploma.

The second area was certain months or years of specific skills and experience which the disadvantaged did not have.

The third was a successful work history. Obviously the disadvantaged did not have a successful work history.

The fourth was some problems with our arrest and conviction record requirement.

The fifth was a prohibition against those enrollees who were either on probation or parole.

All of these items have been successfully eliminated for the successful graduates of our manpower programs. Through the office of manpower programs working very closely with the personnel department and actually merging the goals of the merit system and the goals of the training programs. Our enrollees can now compete on an equal basis for jobs in approximately 30 to 35 different entry level classifications throughout the entire civil service system.

If they perform for a minimum of 6 months on the program, receive adequate recommendations, and they are progressing well, they can be considered eligible for the normal civil service competitive

system.

Senator MONDALE. When do these new regulations go into effect? Mr. MILLER. They have been in effect for approximately 12 months

now.

Senator MONDALE. How many city employees have been hired who would not have been hired otherwise except for these changes?

Mr. MILLER. That would have to be viewed in relationship to the size of our program. Our adult work experience program, the KennedyJavits program, has only 70 slots. Out of the 70, over 40 have been employed in civil service.

Our Neighborhood Youth Corps where, years ago, as the county testified, there were many thousands. We now only have 152 for the entire city component. Countywise there are only 724. This is in relationship to the fantastic needs of the young high school dropout.

Our new careers component is very small. We only have 25 new careerists slots because of the very basic nature of city government. First of all, the funding problem and two, the basic duties performed by city government are nonhuman services related. We are a nuts and bolts type operation. The county government has all of the human services areas such as the hospitals and welfare, and so forth.

Senator MONDALE. Now as I understood the changes in your civil service rules, and this was primarily a rules change-except for training costs which should require Federal expenses-you changed the nature and the procedures and requirements for employment in the city of Los Angeles. Am I correct in that?

Mr. MILLER. Yes. The changes were sort of brought into focus by our being involved in the operations of our manpower programs. Senator MONDALE. In other words, now an applicant for employment with the city who does not have a high school degree can nevertheless apply, knowing that that will not be a bar?

Mr. MILLER. Depending on the classification.

Senator MONDALE. For instance a parolee could come and apply for employment. In the past the fact he was on parole or had a criminal record might bar him.

Mr. MILLER. If I may put that in perspective, Senator, the way that the city has merged the goals of training programs with the goals of the merit system, is by utilizing a very well known and accepted method of qualifying individuals and that is the work sample method. By the individuals being on the program, and being trained within various city departments, and actually doing the job and at the same time being involved in our educational classes and counseling programs, they are showing to the city that they can perform, and by this work sample they are proving they can do it.

Senator MONDALE. And you have a very good idea of what the potential might be. I assume that the regulations that you have liberalized are rather widespread.

Mr. MILLER. That's true.

Senator MONDALE. And what you are trying to do here might have national implications if it works. I am trying to get some idea of the potential here for public jobs for disadvantaged if there were a national policy to do what you are doing here in Los Angeles. That is why I asked how many people do you think have jobs today who wouldn't have had them except for your program.

Mr. Zuck. Perhaps I can throw a little light on that.

What the city has done is to make certain modifications in our policies which makes it possible for persons with limited backgrounds to compete where before they might not have had that opportunity. Mr. Zuck. Now, as Mr. Miller pointed out, of the 70 slots that we have been authorized, we filled 40.

Senator MONDALE. Is that the Kennedy-Javits

Mr. Zuck. Yes. Now this needs to be viewed against the perspective of what city employment is like.

Senator MONDALE. The Kennedy-Javits slots are all federally funded, are they not?

Mr. ZUCK. Yes, sir. But in terms of what city employment is like, out of 45,000 employees, we have determined there are about 10,000 jobs for which people with limited abilities could qualify. Now our turnover rate runs at about 10 percent a year which gives us about 1,000 positions for which they can compete.

What has been modified by the city's civil service commission and personnel department at the request of the mayor has been several of our policies, so that persons in the manpower program can now compete for regular civil service positions, whereas they previously might not have been able to.

Basically, a policy was established of accepting 6 months of successful experience in one of the city's manpower programs, including an endorsement by the supervisor, as substitution for high school lacking, work experience lacking, an unsatisfactory work history, or a conviction record. For many years, in addition, the city has accepted pertinent experience in lieu of education lacking, and has considered convictions only, not arrests, except for a limited number of specifically designated sensitive classes of employment. Recently, the civil service commission established a special class of manpower trainee to which persons can be appointed to acquire training and experience pending achievement of permanent civil service status. This action was taken to further implement the goals of our manpower programs.

(Three job bulletins are attached as examples; see job requirements.)

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A MANPOWER TRAINEE performs a variety of routine, unskilled and semi-skilled tesks in order to obtain practical work experience in the maintenance, construction, craft, custodial, gardening, clerical, mechanical, and technical fields.

DO YOU QUALIFY?

You are qualified if you have successfully completed six months of participation
in the City of Los Angeles Adult Work Experience or Neighborhood Youth Corps
programs. Prior to the interview a letter of favorable recommendation must be
submitted to the Personnel Department from the Office of Urban Development; and
from the supervisor who trained you, including a favorable statement from the
City department in which you have been trained. Your record will be reviewed
and must be approved by the Personnel Department prior to Certification.

Note: Employment as a Manpower Trainee is limited to a maximum of two years, during which time the trainee is expected to qualify for employment in a regular City class.

HOW DO YOU APPLY?

1.

2.

First, contact your Manpower Counselor about this job.

Then come to Room 100, City Hall South, 111 East First Street, Los Angeles, between 9:00 and 9:30 a. m. on the first Monday of each month beginning January 5, 1970. Fill out an Examination Admittance Card and an application. You will be scheduled for an interview that morning.

Your examination score will be based entirely on an evaluation of your training, experience, and personal qualifications in the interview.

Bring your military discharge papers with you if you are a veteran.

You may take the interview only once every six months.
moved from the eligible list after six months.

Your name will be re

This examination will be open until sufficient applications are received, and may be closed without prior notice.

Code No. 3111

Obrain applications and infor

motion in Room 100, L.A. City Hall South, 111 East First Street, or at City Hall Branches

in San Pedro, Van Nuys, Watts,

THIS EXAMINATION IS TO BE GIVEN
ONLY ON AN OPEN COMPETITIVE BASIS

Open No. 259

MANPOWER TRAINEE
$452 to $476

1-16-70

Apply now by mail or in person: PERSONNEL DEPT., Room 100, L.A. City Hall South, 111 East First Street, 624-5211, or Room 101, Van Nuys Branch

West L.A., and Westchester. SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION City Hall.

Form POR 10

40-963 070-21

OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

In order to apply for an Open Competitive examination, you must:

1. Have the minimum qualifications stated on this bulletin.

2 Be a citizen of the United States. If you are a naturalized citizen, you must present proof of citizenship before you can be employed. 3. Be under the compulsory retirement age. The compulsory retirement age in the Deportment of Water and Power is 65 for men and 62 for women In other City departments the compulsory retirement age for men and women is 70 years.

MILITARY CREDIT

If you are entitled to military credits, you must present satisfactory proof of service in Room 100, L.A. City Hall South, 111 East First Street, or Room 101 in the Van Nuys City Hall, as soon as possible. If you are in military service when the test is held, you may present proof of your honorable discharge after your release from active duty Candidates entitled to military credits will have 10 points added to passing

scores.

ELIGIBILITY

If you pass the examination, your name will normally remain on the eligible list for two years.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Candidates will be required to meet appropriate medical standards.

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A clerk performs clerical duties requiring the exercise of some independent
Judgment.

Note: There are a number of Clerk positions which can be filled only by
men. This examination is being given to obtain qualified men for
vacant positions that cannot be filled from current eligible lists.
Another examination will be given for all qualified candidates when
the need arises. Successful candidates in this examination can only
be appointed to male positions.

THE REQUIREMENTS

Candidates must be male and must have graduated from high school and had six
months of full-time paid office clerical experience. Additional such ex-
perience may be substituted on a year for year basis for each year of education
lacking.

Six months of successful participation in the City of Los Angeles Special
Impact or Neighborhood Youth Corps programs may be substituted for require-
ments lacking. (Prior to final acceptance of an application a letter of
favorable recommendation must be submitted to the Personnel Department from
the Office of Community Development; and from the supervisor who trained the
enrollee, including a statement from the City department in which the enrollee
has been trained indicating a willingness to continue his employment on a
permanent basis. The enrollee's record will be reviewed and must be approved
by the Personnel Department prior to Certification.)

Candidates who do not meet the bulletin requirements but who have education
and experience they believe to be substantially equivalent to that specified
on the examination bulletin may submit information in writing with their
application listing such education and experience with reasons supporting
their case.
THESE APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED ONLY IN THE EVENT OF AN
INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICANTS QUALIFIED UNDER THE REQUIREMENTS AS STATED.

APPLICATIONS will be received in Room 100, City Hall South, 111 East First Street,
or in Room 101, Van Nuys Branch City Hall, until sufficient applications
are received. Filing may be closed without prior notice.

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Obtain applications and information in Room 100, L.A. City Hall South, 111 East First

Street, or at City Hall Branches

CLERK (MALE)

$417

Apply now by mail or in person: PERSONNEL DEPT., Room

100, L.A. City Hall South, 111 East First Street, 624-5211, or Room 101, Van Nuys Branch

W San Pedro, Van Nuys, Watts, SEE REVERSE SIBE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Room 101

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Form POR 10

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