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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16 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Sec. 8. Any State desiring to receive the benefits of this Act shall, by the agency designated to cooperate with the United States Employment Service, sbumit to the director general detailed plans for carrying out the provisions of this act within such State. If such plans are in conformity with the provision of this act and reasonably appropriate and adequate to carry out its purposes, they shall be approved by the director general and due notice of such approval shall be given to the State agency. Sec. 9. Each State agency cooperating with the United States Employment Service under this act shall make such reports concerning its operations and ex- penditures as shall be prescribed by the director general. It shall be the duty of the director general to ascertain whether the system of public employment offices maintained in each State is conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations and the standards of efficiency prescribed by the director general in accordance with the provisions of this act. The director general may revoke any existing certificates or withhold any further certificate provided for in section 7, whenever he shall determine, as to any State, that the cooperating State agency has not properly expended the moneys paid to it or the moneys herein required to be appropriated by such State, in accordance with plans approved under this act. Before any such certificate shall be revoked or withheld from any State, the direc- tor general shall give notice in writing to the State agency, stating specifically wherein the State has failed to comply with such plans. The State agency may appeal to the Secretary of Labor from the action of the director general in any such case and the Sacretary of Labor may either affirm or reverse the action of the director general with such directions as he shall consider proper. Sec. 10. During the current fiscal year and the twe succeeding fiscal years the director general is authorized to expend in any State so much of the sums apportioned to such State according to population, and so much of the unap- potioned balance of the appropriation made under the provisions of section 5 as he may deem necessary, as follows: (a) In States where there is no State system of public employment offices, in establishing and maintaining a system of public employment offices under the control of the director general. (b) In States where there is a State system of public employment offices, but where the State has not complied with the provisions of section 4, in establishing a cooperative Federal and State system of public employment offices to be maintained by such officer or board and in such manner as may be agreed upon by and betwezn the governor of the State and the director general; except that pending the conclusion of such agreement, but for not more than one year, the director gencral may establish and maintain in any such State a system of public employment offices under the control of the director general. Smc. 11. (a) The director general shall establish a Federal advisory council composed of an equal number of employers and employees for the purpose of formulating policies and discussing problems relating to unemployment, and insuring impartiality, neutrality, and freedom from political influence in solution of such problems. Members of such council shall be selected from time to time in such manner as the director general shall prescribé. The director general shall also require the organization of similar State advisory councils composed of equal numbers of employers and employees. (b) In carrying out the provisions of this act the director general is authorized and directed to provide for the giving of notice of strikes or lockouts to applicants for employment. (¢) In earrying out the provisions of this act the director general is authorized bo provide for establishing employment offices for individual occupations. Sec. 12. The director general, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. Sec. 13. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to extend to the United States Employment Service and to the system of employment offices operated by it in conformity with the provisions of this act, and to all State employment systems which receive funds appropriated under authority of this act, and to all cooperative Federal and State employment systems, operated under agreements made as provided in this act, the privilege of free transmis- sion of official mail matter.

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