Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1828236179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-226169

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Unemployment in the United States

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States, Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: II, 193 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Miss Grace E. Cooke, representing the National Employment Board, Boston, Mass

Collection:: Economics Books

146 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH APPLICANTS i. Applicants shall be introduced upon those openings only for which authority has been given by the employer to submit candidates. . 2. Representations made to applicants concerning prospective positions, the: character and probable length of the employment, hours, salary, ete., shall be: scrupulously correct. 3. Systematic effort shall be made to ascertain that positions upon which applicants are submitted, are open at the time that they are referred. 4. Precaution shall be taken against referring any applicant to employers who: engage in illegal, immoral or any questionable business practices. 5. A schedule of service charges shall be given to all applicants for their exam- ination and acceptance before they are permitted to incur obligations for service.. 6. Acceptance of gratuities from applicants who seek thereby to gain otherwise unmerited assistance or improper concealment of damaging faets in their pasé history, is strictly forbidden. ADVERTISING 1. Position listings in the ‘‘Help Wanted” columns of newspapers or other mediums shall refer to bona fide openings available at the time that copy is given to these publications for insertion. 2. The use of “blind ads” to attract applicants is strictly forbidden. 3. No responses shall be made to “Help Wanted’ ads inserted by employers in newspapers or other mediums except as they present the qualifications of specific candidates actually available for the particular openings described. 4. Abstracts of applicants’ records that are presented to employers from time to time in a promotional effort to locate opportunities. shall in every instance represent candidates actually gvailable. SERVICE CHARGES AND COLLECTIONS 1. An applicant shall not be held obligated for a placement charge unless and until the applicant has clearly accepted a position offered him by an employer as a result of the agent’s efforts in his behalf. 2. Reasonable adjustment shall be made of charges for service where the employment obtained by the applicant terminates within a reasonable period from circumstances over which the applicant has had no control. 3. Refunds of overpayment on adjusted accounts shall be in eash or in credit. on the books at the option of the applicant. 4. Methods pursued in collecting accounts shall conform to the highest ethical standards used by reputable firms in other lines of business. I hereby subscribe to the foregoing standards of practice recognizing in them sound business principles. I further subscribe to them as a requirement for holding membership in the National Employment Board and acknowledge the violation of any section thereof as cause for action by the board provided for ander section 2, article 8 of the by-laws. Miss Cooke. Now Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I shall be glad to answer any questions. Mr. Tucker. You made a reference to a decision of the Supreme Court of 1928 and I did not catch the subject of the decision, or the reference. Co } Co Miss Cooxe. 1 will give you the citation. You will find it in the brief of the Manufacturers Association. However, I will be very glad to give it to you. It is Ribnik ». McBride, (277 U. S. 354). ~ Mr. MicuENER. You suggested this proposed bill was subtle and Its purpose—you sort of reflected on the purpose of the bill. You said the purpose was ulterior, in other words. Now just what do you think the purpose of the bill is, if it is not to help the employment situation? Miss Cooxe. The bill, as perhaps you know, originated in 1919. Mr. MicHENER. Yes; we are familiar with that. } Miss Cooke. 1 would be glad to tell you, if I might, how it came about. When the bill was before the joint committee of the House

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