Full text : Unemployment in the United States

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 expenditures
 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 director
 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 unappotioned
 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 transmission
 of official mail matter.
            
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