Oversight Hearings on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Manpower, Compensation, and Health and Safety of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ...

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Page 91 - ... 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 318 - 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 144 - States and the political subdivisions thereof in which there shall be located a veterans' employment service. The bureau shall also assist in co-ordinating the public employment offices throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities...
Page 330 - 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 318 - ... 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 318 - States" is used it shall be understood to include the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska. SEC. 4. In order to obtain the benefits of appropriations apportioned under section 5, a State shall, through its legislature, accept the provisions of this Act and designate or authorize the creation of a State agency vested with all powers necessary to cooperate with the United States Employment Service under this Act.
Page 330 - The provisions of this section shall apply to any subcontract in excess of $2,500 entered into by a prime contractor in carrying out any contract for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) for the United States.
Page 333 - Act, and is committed to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era.
Page 244 - most employers discriminate against older people and make it difficult for them to find work.
Page 79 - Service under the Economic Opportunity Act and the Manpower Development and Training Act.

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