Public Employment Offices: Their Purpose, Structure and Methods

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Page 633 - An act to provide for. the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat.
Page 177 - 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 128 - It shall be the duty of said division to promote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the United States among the several States and Territories desiring immigration. Correspondence shall be had with the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said division shall gather from all available sources useful information regarding the resources, products, and physical characteristics of each State and Territory, and shall publish such information in different...
Page 10 - During long periods of unemployment good workmen degenerate into tramps. They become habituated to a life of idleness and uncertainty so that when at last employment is once more to be had, they are unfit for continuous labor. The mere unemployed have become unemployable.
Page 189 - A system of national employment offices, with due provision for cooperation with existing state and municipal systems, can be made, under efficient management and if conducted with due regard to the equal interests of employers and employees in its proper administration, a most helpful agency, but only if all appointments are made strictly subject to the Civil Service Law and rules.
Page 633 - Labor a bureau to be as the Women's Bureau. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau.
Page 3 - ... ability from the top down. The Director should be appointed directly by the President. Adequate salaries should be provided and adequate safeguards to secure the proper personnel and to protect the tenure of office. 5. An adequate permanent system of employment offices as above suggested would obviate the necessity of creating new offices whenever new emergencies arise. It would also prevent the public employment office from being regarded as a mere temporary philanthropic device, and thus through...
Page 3 - GOVERNOR 1. Continue to develop the State employment service looking toward an ultimate State monopoly in this field, excepting possibly a small number of Union agencies and private agencies supplying service of a personal and professional character.
Page 215 - ... notwithstanding the absence of any member. Except as above provided, every question shall be decided by a majority of the members present and voting on that question. The chairman shall have no vote on any question on which the equality of voting power has been claimed.
Page 8 - But the workers are not allowed to earn even these amounts in every week of the year. The report says: "A conservative estimate, based on all the available statistics of loss in working time, would appear to be that...

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